Erik Erikson and the American Psyche

Daniel Burston was born in Israel, raised and educated in Toronto, and now lives in Pittsburgh, PA, where he chairs the department of psychology at Duquesne University. Dr. Burston is the author of numerous books and articles on the history and theory of psychoanalysis, and the many points of convergence between psychology, philosophy, religion and culture.

• 0 Acknowledgements0 PrefaceChapter 1 In Hitler's ShadowChapter 2 The New WorldChapter 3 A Crisis of IntegrityChapter 4 Situating EriksonChapter 5 Psychohistory - Luther and GandhiChapter 6 Evolution and Conscience in Darwin, Freud and EriksonChapter 7 The Historicity of Dreams - Freud, Fliess & JungChapter 8 Erikson's Erasure

Erik Erikson and the American Psyche: Ego, Ethics, and Evolution is a very important intellectual history that does much to restore Erikson's ideas to the place that they deserve both within the psychoanalytic movement and within general psychology. Burston is an excellent guide to this very complex literature with many crosscurrents. He knows the many players and knows how to handle historical and biographical material with a deft touch that is both analytic and respectful of the various players' humanity. As a guide to Erikson, he is both deeply knowledgeable and appropriately critical.