Introduction: Eric Erickson was a psychologist who studied and was influenced by Sigmund Freud. Erikson developed the psychosocial theory of personality development which suggests that every individual goes through different stages of life, from birth to death. One of the main aspects of his theory is ego identity, the conscious sense of self that human beings receive at birth and develop through the social interactions of life. Erickson argues that during these stages humans face conflict and there is one overriding issue that may or may not be successfully negotiated. It is the successful completion of each stage in which humans learn skills that will aid the effective completion of future stages. Erickson believed that current thinkingErickson's psychosocial theory provides significant ideas and tools that can be put into practice for identifying and modifying behavior patterns developed throughout life. Erickson's theory is hardly comparable to the biological and natural sciences with their demands for accuracy, repeatability and testable hypotheses. Therefore adopt Erickson's description of his work; It should be used as a tool to think with rather than as an answer to the question, “Who am I?” (Erikson, 1968). Application of Simply, I want to have a basis for my speech. In Erickson's words, his theory is a tool for people to live with. It has the ability to look back into the development of one's identity and potentially identify stages of development where a crisis was not successfully negotiated. At the beginning of this essay I linked Sorell and Montgomery who suggested the benefits of using Erikson's theory. In their writings they also point out that women and men resolve conflicts differently. The authors state that “women's identity development will be organized by relational concerns, whereas men's identity will involve independence and agency” (Sorell & Montgomery, 2001). I have read in various places that these conclusions can apply to adults and adolescents, to whites and blacks. They conclude that even in light of gender, socioeconomic, political or ethnocentric prejudices, the identity construct survives (Sorell & Montgomery,