Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, ERIK H. ERIKSON was one of the leading figures in the field of psychoanalysis and human development. His clinical practice included the treatment of children, he studied the process of growing up in a variety of cultural and social settings, and he was a training psychoanalyst for many years. He was on the Senior Staff of the Austen Riggs Center; participated in the researches of the Harvard Psychological Clinic, the Yale Institute of Human Relations, the Institute of Child Welfare at the University of California, and the Western Psychiatric Institute in Pittsburgh; and was Professor of Human Development and Lecturer on Psychiatry at Harvard.