ABSTRACT Identity: Youth and Crisis provides a compilation of Erikson’s most insightful observations of the various types of identity crisis and their impact. Although his general writings about identity fueled much empirical research, Erikson did not feel this research captured the complexities of the concept, and he remarked that its meaning was morphing in ways he never intended. Indeed, many of his explicit characterizations of the identity crisis have not been operationalized in most neo-Eriksonian frameworks. In this article, I reconstruct Erikson’s model of the identity crisis in its various forms and manifestations and then apply this model to the current “student mental health crisis.” Based on his warnings that the psychiatric model can inappropriately label certain crisis-related behaviors as disorders, I argue that he would have diagnosed many of the stress reactions reported by contemporary students as representing developmental difficulties associated with moderate to severe identity confusion created by person–context adjustments.

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埃里克森的 21 世纪身份危机概念的持久有用性：对学生心理健康问题的分析

摘要 身份：青年与危机汇集了埃里克森对各种身份危机及其影响的最有见地的观察。尽管他关于身份的一般著作推动了许多实证研究，但埃里克森并不觉得这项研究抓住了这个概念的复杂性，他说它的含义正在以他从未想过的方式发生变化。事实上，他对身份危机的许多明确描述并没有在大多数新埃里克森主义的框架中得到实施。在这篇文章中，我重构了埃里克森关于身份危机的各种形式和表现的模型，然后将该模型应用于当前的“学生心理健康危机”。基于他的警告，即精神病学模型可能会不恰当地将某些与危机相关的行为标记为障碍，