Bøger af Joan M. Erikson

"In this loving and vivid book, Joan Erikson gives us an artist's retracting of the human life cycle, beginning in the blessings of the senses and fulfilled in wisdom."-Mary Catherine Bateson

In 1951 Joan M. Erikson, a craftswoman and writer, was asked to develop a program of planned activities for the patients at the Austen Riggs Center, a small private institution for the emotionally disturbed. In this book she and her co-workers describe their experience and its wider applications.

Erikson's now-famous concept of the life cycle delineates eight stages of psychological development through which each of us progresses.

Out of this residue of verified fact and beloved legend, the image of Saint Francis emerges.