WHO THE HECK IS THE “REAL” YOU?
I love that quote by Thomas Merton! How can we possibly be anything but ourselves?! And yet, most adults have experienced an identity crisis at least once if not several times before the age of 30. The term “identity crisis” first came from developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst Erik Erikson. Erikson introduced the ideas of adolescent identity crises as well as midlife crisis, believing that personalities developed by resolving crises in life.
