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The Second Identity Crisis: How to Deal in a Smart Way with a New Phase of Life

By Prudy Gourguechon — 2019

One of Erikson’s most important contributions was to describe this as a psychosocial phenomenon—an interaction between someone’s sense of who he or she is as a person and society’s recognition of that person as an individual. The key point here is that as your place in society shifts so does your internal sense of identity.

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