Joan Erikson | |
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| Born | Sarah Lucretia Serson June 27, 1903 |
| Died | August 3, 1997 (aged 94) |
| Nationality | Naturalized United States citizen |
| Occupation(s) | Collaborator with her husband, Erik Erikson, author, educator, craftsperson, weaver, jeweler, beadwork, dance ethnographer[2][3] |
| Known for | Helped reshape the prevailing psychological view of human development[3] |
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Joan Mowat Erikson (born Sarah Lucretia Serson;[4][5] June 27, 1903 – August 3, 1997) was well known as the collaborator with her husband, Erik Erikson, and as an author, educator, craftsperson, and dance ethnographer.[2][3]
- ^ Ontario Births, 1869-1912
- ^ a b "Joan Erikson, Life Cycles Theorist, Dies" in Harvard University Gazette, September 11, 1997. Online at http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1997/09.11/JoanEriksonLife.html.
- ^ a b c Robert McG. Thomas Jr. (8 August 1997). "Joan Erikson Is Dead at 95; Shaped Thought on Life Cycles". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
Joan Mowat Erikson, who helped reshape the prevailing psychological view of human development through a six-decade, all-senses collaboration with her husband, Erik Erikson, and still found time to pursue her own interests in arts and crafts, education and dance, died on Sunday at a nursing home in Brewster, Mass. She was 95.
- ^ Fine, Paul (March 2011). "Some Thoughts About Wisdom Keepers". American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Retrieved December 3, 2015.
- ^ Benveniste, Daniel (2000). "Erik H. Erikson: An Outsider At the Center of Things". The Psychoanalytic Review. 87 (6).