Shame and doubt about the child's self-control and independence occur if basic trust was insufficiently developed or was lost such as when the child's will is broken by an over controlling parent. ... If the child does not receive this reassurance and parents overprotect, or disapprove of the child's acts of independence, the child may begin to feel ashamed of his or her behavior, or have too much doubt of their abilities. ... One of the great events of this time is the child's entry into school. ... Erikson's prior four stages add to the fifth stage, Identity vs. ......

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In 1933 he came to the U.S. and became Boston's first child analyst and obtained a position at the Harvard Medical School. ... He studied combat crises in troubled American soldiers in World War II, child-rearing practices among the Sioux in South Dakota and the Yurok along the Pacific Coast, the play of disturbed and normal children, the conversations of troubled adolescent suffering identity crises, and social behavior in India. ... Going beyond the of a child's early life, Erikson concentrated on broader issues of peer culture, school environment, and cultural values and ideal...

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