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  Eriskson was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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  After Erickson was born, his mother moved both of them to Karlsruhe, Germany, and married Erickson's pediatrician.
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  Eriskson was adopted by his stepfather but believe him to be his actual father until later in his life.
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  Erickson published his first paper
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  Erickson married joan serson
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  Hitler rose to power and erickson feared they would come to where he lived so he and his family fled to denmark and were unable to gain citizenship so they fled to america.
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  After arriving in america, erickson took a job teaching at Harvard Medical School
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  Erickson graduated from college and obtained his degree in child psychoanalysis.
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  Erikson left Harvard to become a member of the Institute of Human Relations at Yale University.
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  Erickson changed his surname from his adopted name of Homburger to Erickson.
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  Erickson Left Yale to move to san francisco
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  Erickson became a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley
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  Erickson wrote essays in the 40s that would later become his book "Childhood and society"
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  Berkeley asked Erickson to sign a loyalty oath, but Erickson refused and resigned from his position.
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  After resigning from Berkeley, he joined a psychiatric treatment facility called the Austen Riggs Center.
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  Erickson went back to working at Harvard.
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  Erickson Retired
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