Erikson's Timeline: Eight Stages Of Life
Erikson 's Timeline
Meghann Webster
Psy230
Erikson 's Timeline
Erikson’s timeline include eight stages of life: infancy, early childhood, childhood (play age), childhood (school age), adolescence and young adulthood, young adulthood, mature adulthood, and old age. The stage I believe I am currently in is the sixth stage- young adulthood where we see intimacy vs. isolation.
I believe I am in this stage because I have already gone through the stage of adolescence/ young adulthood. I have asked the questions “Who am I? Where do I fit in?” I had a time where I was trying to figure out who I was as a person without anyone else, what I wanted out of life, where I felt like I belonged, but now I have answered those questions and moved on with my life. I have moved on to the intimacy vs. isolation stage and believe I am still in this stage. I am married and have been …show more content…
I believe feel that my intimacy status is “intimate” as I have close friends and I am in a committed relationship that I freely express a range of feelings in, from anger to affection. The central question posed in this stage of life is “How can I love?” I believe I have answered this question by starting new relationships with people and examining old ones. For example, when I first started this stage a few years ago, I met a young man named William who worked as a barista. We hit it off from the start, I was already married at this point so it was a strictly platonic chemistry between us. I had a friend from childhood that I considered to be my best friend, who was also a guy. I learned pretty quickly after meeting William that the relationship we had was getting close but it was more open and mature than the relationship I had previously experienced before. I compared the relationships to each other and
Meghann Webster
Psy230
Erikson 's Timeline
Erikson’s timeline include eight stages of life: infancy, early childhood, childhood (play age), childhood (school age), adolescence and young adulthood, young adulthood, mature adulthood, and old age. The stage I believe I am currently in is the sixth stage- young adulthood where we see intimacy vs. isolation.
I believe I am in this stage because I have already gone through the stage of adolescence/ young adulthood. I have asked the questions “Who am I? Where do I fit in?” I had a time where I was trying to figure out who I was as a person without anyone else, what I wanted out of life, where I felt like I belonged, but now I have answered those questions and moved on with my life. I have moved on to the intimacy vs. isolation stage and believe I am still in this stage. I am married and have been …show more content…
I believe feel that my intimacy status is “intimate” as I have close friends and I am in a committed relationship that I freely express a range of feelings in, from anger to affection. The central question posed in this stage of life is “How can I love?” I believe I have answered this question by starting new relationships with people and examining old ones. For example, when I first started this stage a few years ago, I met a young man named William who worked as a barista. We hit it off from the start, I was already married at this point so it was a strictly platonic chemistry between us. I had a friend from childhood that I considered to be my best friend, who was also a guy. I learned pretty quickly after meeting William that the relationship we had was getting close but it was more open and mature than the relationship I had previously experienced before. I compared the relationships to each other and