Erik Erikson was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on June 15, 1902, and died in a nursing home in Harwich on Cape Cod on May 12, 1994. Of that life of close to ninety-two years, spanning almost our entire twentieth century, it can be unhesitatingly asserted that, after Freud, no single psychoanalyst has more profoundly impacted our twentieth-century culture and world than he, and almost none have reframed our psychoanalytic world as much as he. In addition, and parochially for the San Francisco Bay Area, Erik spent two major periods of his life in our psychoanalytic community—the decade of the forties, as a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), a founding member of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and Society, and also cofounder, together with his Jungian analyst friend and colleague, Joseph Wheelwright, of the Veterans Clinic created at the newly formed Mt. Zion Hospital Department of Psychiatry, designed to address