Fredric Wertham Legacy

Fredric Wertham (/ˈwɜːrðəm/; born Friedrich Ignatz Wertheimer, March 20, 1895 – November 18, 1981) was a German-American psychiatrist and author. Wertham...

Seduction of the Innocent is a book by German-born American psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, published in 1954, that warned that comic books were a negative form...

physician Paul Lafargue and conceived by German-American psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, who recognized the dire state of mental health services for blacks...

around a series of Senate hearings and the publication of psychiatrist Fredric Wertham's book Seduction of the Innocent. Members submitted comics to the CCA...

expert was Dr Fredric Wertham, a leading critic of comic books, who had published Seduction of the Innocent earlier that year. Wertham cited the Thrill...

Juvenile Delinquency began. The movement was spearheaded by psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, who argued in Seduction of the Innocent, that "deviant" sexual undertones...

was reproduced in Seduction of the Innocent, the 1954 book by Dr. Fredric Wertham denouncing what he saw as the morally corrupting effect of comics on...

(24 February 2004). "King Leopold's legacy of DR Congo violence". BBC. Retrieved 1 December 2011. Wertham, Fredric (1968). A Sign For Cain: An Exploration...

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foreshadowing the later crusade against the comic book industry dominated by Fredric Wertham. Love and Death was an outgrowth of the little magazine Neurotica,...

1947), became a centerpiece of psychiatrist Dr. Fredric Wertham's crusade against violent comic books. Wertham, author of the influential study Seduction of...

public figures like J. Edgar Hoover, John Mason Brown, and most notably Fredric Wertham, until Congressional hearings led to the mid-1950s self-censorship...

ISBN 978-0-313-32754-4 Wertham, Fredric (1954), Seduction of the Innocent, Rinehart & Company, pp. 192, 234–235 Wertham, Fredric (1954), Seduction of the...

illiteracy and juvenile delinquency. In the wake of books such as Dr. Fredric Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent and the investigations of the Senate Subcommittee...

Uricchio (1991), p. 58 Wertham, Fredric. Seduction of the Innocent. Rinehart and Company, Inc., 1954. pp. 189–90. For discussion of Wertham's impact see Brooker...

children. The problem came to a head in 1948 with the publication by Dr. Fredric Wertham of two articles: "Horror in the Nursery" (in Collier's) and "The Psychopathology...

boys, in the controversial Seduction of the Innocent, psychiatrist Fredric Wertham claimed, as a point of criticism, that Wonder Woman's strength and...

Retrieved 29 March 2016. Tilley, Carol (2013). "Seducing the Innocent: Fredric Wertham and the Falsifications that Helped Condemn Comics". Information & Culture:...

the Batman. A female was chosen first, to offset the charges made by Fredric Wertham that Batman and Robin were homosexual. Writer Bill Finger and artist...

them. This culminated in the book Seduction of the Innocent (1954) by Fredric Wertham, causing a decline in the comics industry. To address public concerns...