Wertham, Fredric 1895-1981 creator mixed material monographic eng ger 82,200 222 2 90 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. Restrictions apply. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. 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 Wertham, Fredric, 1895-1981 mm 87062110 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms010146 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms010146.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010146 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010146.3 Restrictions apply. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. DLC 870805 20260227111722.0 mm 87062110