FIGURE 9. ERIKSONIAN STAGES AND THEIR COUNSELING PROBLEMSa
Approximate
Age
|
Stage
|
Failure at
Differentiation
|
Failure at Integration of a Success into Next Stage
|
Morality
|
0-2
|
Trust
|
Schizoid person
|
Overdependent neurotic
|
Fear
|
2-4
|
Autonomy
|
Neurotic doubt of self-
worth
|
Anal person
|
Shame
|
4-7
|
Initiative
|
Guilt immobilized
person
|
Creative nonconformist
|
Guilt
|
7-M
|
Industry
|
Underachiever
|
Overachiever - grind type
|
Puritan ethic
|
Teens
|
Identity
|
Alienated introvert
|
Moody, "Permanent adolescent"
"Social butterfly"
|
Socialization
|
20s
|
Intimacy
|
Don Juan man
Frigid woman
|
Nonpaternal man
Nonmaternal woman
|
Sexual love
|
30s
|
Generativity
(parental)
|
Parent who competes
with child
|
The child-oriented woman of fifty
|
Children
|
40s
|
Ego integrity
|
The senior depressive
|
(Modern "saints" such as Eleanor Roosevelt or
Dr. Schweitzer
|
Altruism
|