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young adult /
lovers, friends,
work
connections /
intimate
relationships,
work and social
life

6. Intimacy
v Isolation

Love &
Affiliation

'patterns of
cooperation
and
competition'

mid-adult /
children,
community /
'giving back',
helping,
contributing

7.
Care &
Generativity Production
v Stagnation

late adult /
society, the
world, life /
meaning and
purpose, life
achievements,
acceptance

8. Integrity v Wisdom &
'wisdom'
Despair
Renunciation

esteem

'currents of
selfeducation and actualisation
training'

selfactualisation

N.B. I'm not suggesting a direct fit between Erikson's and Maslow's
models. Rather, this simply puts the two perspectives alongside each
other to show how similar aspects could could inter-relate. Judge for
yourself.
We might also use the Erikson model to help explain what happens in
Maslow's theory when a particular trauma sweeps away a part of
someone's life (perhaps due to redundancy, divorce, social exclusion,
bankruptcy, homelessness), which causes the person to revisit certain
needs and internal conflicts (crises) which were once satisfied earlier
but are no longer met. According to both Erikson's and Maslow's

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