04857cpcaa2200829 a 4500 mm 87062110 DLC 20260227111722.0 cr ||||||||||| 870805|||||||||||| eng mm 87062110 DLC DLC DLC dacs eng ger S lcmd Wertham, Fredric, 1895-1981. Fredric Wertham papers, 1818-1986 (bulk 1945-1975). 82,200 items. 222 containers plus 2 oversize. 90 linear feet. Restrictions apply. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. 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. Psychiatrist. Original spelling of name: Friedrich Ignatz Wertheimer. Collection material in English and German. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010146 Caldwell, Taylor, 1900-1985 Correspondence. Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 Correspondence. Frink, Horace Westlake, 1883-1936 Correspondence. Gutheil, Emil Arthur, 1899-1959 Correspondence. Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 Correspondence. Jones, Ernest, 1879-1958 Correspondence. Kinsey, Alfred C. (Alfred Charles), 1894-1956 Correspondence. Kraepelin, Emil, 1856-1926. Lissitzky, El, 1890-1941. Macalpine, Ida Correspondence. Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 Correspondence. Meyer, Adolf, 1866-1950. Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005 Correspondence. Mosse, Hilde L. Winter, Ella Correspondence. Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 Correspondence. Lafargue Clinic (New York, N.Y.) Quaker Emergency Service Readjustment Center (New York, N.Y.) Abused children. African Americans Psychology. African Americans Segregation. Art Collectors and collecting. Censorship. Civil rights. Comic books, strips, etc. Psychological aspects. Drugs Physiological effect. Freedom of speech. Juvenile delinquency. Pornography. Psychiatric clinics New York (State) New York. Race relations. Racism. Sex (Psychology) Sex crimes. Violence Social aspects. Violence in mass media. Violence in motion pictures. Violence on television. Violent crimes. Psychiatrists. itoamc Wertham, Fredric, 1895-1981. Seduction of the innocent. 1954. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010146 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010146.3 44183 44183