Scott Smith LCSW
Tokyo Psychotherapy

“Psychosocial development” is the idea that our emotional lives, identities, and relationships grow and change over time. I reckon most people would agree that we do change, right? For example, I’m an old man now. I’m still me; I’m the same person I’ve always been, basically. But the ways in which I think, feel and behave have changed quite a bit since I was an infant. There are many theories about how we develop and change psychologically as we go through life. Most of them

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