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Intimacy Versus Isolation Stage In Cathy's Life
Developmental Stage At the time in Cathy’ life when her life event took place Cathy was in what Erickson referred to as the moving into the stage of Intimacy versus Isolation stage in her personal development. () This refuses to Cathy moving into an intimate relationship and being able to move from being just her to being a couple with her husband. Cathy chose to open herself to love even at the loss of her independent self is why she is justified in Erickson’s stage of development. Based Robert Kegan theory an ‘increased capacity for complex thinking’ she was at that time in her life in between the Socialized mind and the Self-authoring mind stages of development. Socialized mind is where a person identify themselves and beliefs by that
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