psychological development: Quick Facts

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infant and toddler development emotional development individuation mid-life crisis Electra complex psychosexual stage concrete operational stage preoperational stage sensorimotor stage infantile neurosis prenatal development birth human aging Gestation adolescence old age personality disorder infancy ego puberty

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Erik Erikson

American psychoanalyst

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