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
aIdeally, each person should go through life as in a croquet game, passing each wicket. One can fail to negotiate wickets (failure at differentiation) and also stop and play rover (failure at integration). The latter person has been so successful at a particular stage that he keeps at it instead of incorporating it into the next stage of on-going development.