After spending a year observing children on a Sioux reservation in South Dakota, he moved to the University of California at Berkeley; there he affiliated with the Institute of Child Welfare and opened a private practice as well.
Dr. Calitz's studies in the work of Dr. Montessori, Piaget, Vygotsky, Gardner and Erikson strengthened her view that young children have incredible potential and the will and motivation to find answers for themselves and take control over the exploration of the world they live in.
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His work on positive adult development built upon that of Erik Erikson, Elliott Jaques, and Bernice Neugarten.
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He was involved the Harvard Psychological Clinic, led by Henry Murray, and the Department of Social Relations, where he worked with colleagues such as Erik Erikson, Robert W. White, Talcott Parsons, Gordon Allport, and Alex Inkeles.
Erikson was born in Vienna, the son of Joan Erikson (née Serson), a Canadian-born artist, dancer, and writer, and Erik Erikson, a German-born famed psychologist and sociologist.
Important theorists for a psychobiography would be Allport, Alfred Adler, Erik Erikson, Freud, Bronfenbrenner, Carl Jung, Albert Bandura, John Bowlby, among others.
His work on personality development – as found in his book From Instinct to Identity – is an integration of theory and research from child development, John Bowlby, Erik Erikson, Harry Stack Sullivan, Freud, Jean Piaget, primate studies, and research on hunter-gatherer societies.
Some individuals who influenced Peterson and Seligman’s choice of strengths include: Abraham Maslow, Erik Erikson, Ellen Greenberger, Marie Jahoda, Carol Ryff, Michael Cawley, Howard Gardner, Shalom Schwartz.