Joan Erikson

Joan Erikson
Born
Sarah Lucretia Serson

(1903-06-27)June 27, 1903
Brockville, Ontario, Canada[1]
DiedAugust 3, 1997(1997-08-03) (aged 94)
Brewster, Massachusetts
NationalityNaturalized United States citizen
Occupation(s)Collaborator with her husband, Erik Erikson, author, educator, craftsperson, weaver, jeweler, beadwork, dance ethnographer[2][3]
Known forHelped reshape the prevailing psychological view of human development[3]
Spouse
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(m. 1930; died 1994)​
Children

Joan Mowat Erikson (born Sarah Lucretia Serson;[4][5] June 27, 1903 – August 3, 1997) was a Canadian author, educator, craftsperson, and dance ethnographer.[2][3] She was well known as a collaborator with her husband, Erik Erikson.

  1. ^ Ontario Births, 1869-1912
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Fine, Paul (March 2011). "Some Thoughts About Wisdom Keepers". American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Retrieved December 3, 2015.
  5. ^ Benveniste, Daniel (2000). "Erik H. Erikson: An Outsider At the Center of Things". The Psychoanalytic Review. 87 (6).