[1] Erikson discusses the social significance of childhood,[1] introducing ideas such as the eight stages of psychosocial development and the concept of an "identity crisis".

[2] Childhood and Society was the first of Erikson's books to become popular.

[2] The critic Frederick Crews calls the work "a readable and important book extending Freud's developmental theory.

"[3] The Oxford Handbook of Identity names Erikson as the seminal figure in "the developmental approach of understanding identity".

[4] This article about a psychology book is a stub.