Among the topics covered are: Freud's discovery that the human mind can only be studied through a partnership between observer and observed; how clinical evidence is made up of a unique mixture of subjective and objective; an observation on the way issues of identity affect not only individuals but classes of people; and an examination of the links between ego formation and institutions and traditions. Erikson also discusses the origins of ethics and looks at psychiatry as the pragmatic Western version of the universal journey to self-awareness.
- ISBN10 0393347427
- ISBN13 9780393347425
- Publish Date 17 August 1994 (first published 12 December 1989)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint W. W. Norton & Company
- Format eBook
- Language English