Fredric Wertham papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Violent crimes; Sex (Psychology); Violence in mass media; Violence; Abused children; Psychology; Juvenile delinquency; Racism; Quaker Emergency Service Readjustment Center (New York, N.Y.); Comic books, strips; Physiological effect; Pornography; Freedom of speech; Psychological aspects; Sex crimes; Violence in motion pictures; Psychiatric clinics; Correspondence; Race relations; Art; Drugs; Civil rights; Social aspects; Segregation; Censorship; Violence on television; Lafargue Clinic (New York, N.Y.); African Americans; Collectors and collecting
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, writings, speeches and lectures, reports, research notes, patient case files, psychiatric tests, transcripts of court proceedings, biographical information, newspaper clippings, drawings, photographs, and other materials pertaining primarily to Wertham's career in psychiatry.

Topics include abused children, censorship, civil rights, the physiological effect of drugs, freedom of speech, juvenile delinquency, pornography, race relations and racism, sex crimes, violence, violence in comic books, mass media, motion pictures, and television, and violent crime.  Includes materials relating to Wertham's testimony as an expert witness in desegregation cases; his work in New York, N.Y., with the Lafargue Clinic, a psychiatric clinic for African Americans, and the Quaker Emergency Service Readjustment Center for sexually maladjusted individuals; and his art collection particularly paintings by El Lissitzky.  Also includes notes, drafts, and related materials for Wertham's major works including Seduction of the Innocent (1954); a patient case file, correspondence, and writings by or about Wertham's patient, psychoanalyst Horace Westlake Frink, and correspondence between Frink and Sigmund Freud; and correspondence, writings, and other papers relating to Wertham's mentors, Emil Kraepelin and Adolf Meyer, and to his Lafargue associate, Hilde Mosse.  Correspondents include Taylor Caldwell, Emil Arthur Gutheil, Langston Hughes, Ernest Jones, Alfred C. Kinsey, Ida Macalpine, Thomas Mann, Arthur Miller, Ella Winter, and Richard Wright.
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Gift, estate of Florence Hesketh Wertham, 1987-1988.

Psychiatrist.

Collection material in English and German.

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