Encounters with Erik Erikson

Psychoanalyst and writer. He has been a lecturer at Harvard University, visiting professor at the universities of Chicago, McGill, Melbourne, Hawaii, Vienna, and INSEAD, and Fellow at the Institutes of Advanced Study, Princeton and Berlin. Kakar's many honors include the Boyer Prize of the American Anthropological Association, the Kardiner Award of Columbia University, and Germany's Goethe Medal and Order of Merit. He is on the Board of Directors of the Sigmund Freud Archives at the Library of Congress. Kakar is the author of eighteen books of nonfiction and five of fiction. His books have been translated into twenty-two languages around the world.