Authors: Erik H. Erikson
ISBN-13: 9780393310344, ISBN-10: 0393310345
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: April 1993
Edition: Reissue
A winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Erik H. Erikson was renowned worldwide as teacher, clinician, and theorist in the field of psychoanalysis and human development.
In this study of Mahatma Gandhi, psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson explores how Gandhi succeeded in mobilizing the Indian people both spiritually and politically as he became the revolutionary innovator of militant non-violence and India became the motherland of large-scale civil disobedience.
Reprint of the work originally published by Norton in 1969. Erikson focuses his psychoanalytic attention upon Gandhi. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)