Wisdom and the Senses: The Way of Creativity

Having assisted her husband, Erik Erikson, in the research leading up to the classic psychosocial development conceptual framework, Joan Mowat Erikson assumed she understood its significance. Later, when she invited a weaver to represent the same information using 9 carefully chosen colors -- one for each of the eight stages plus gray for the occasional negative events which occur in each person's life -- she was able to clarify the tension between each crisis's polar outcomes.Having introduced numerous students through the years to Erikson's theory of psychosocial development, I was excited to meet this author in print and thrilled to see various weavings in color, helping me to understand in greater depth than before.