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Critic John Mason Brown recently called comic books "the marijuana of the nursery." Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham ranked them among the chief "contributing causes of juvenile delinquency." Disgusted by the sex, violence and crime they were peddling, druggists in South Bend refused last week to sell comic books in their stores...
...diagnosis was offered by Dr. Frederic Wertham, Manhattan psychiatrist and founder of Harlem's Lafargue Clinic (TIME, Dec. i). The increase of violence in juvenile delinquency, he said, goes hand in hand with the increase of comic books. Said Dr. Wertham: "We are getting to the roots of one of the contributing causes of juvenile delinquency. . . . You cannot understand present-day juvenile delinquency if you do not take into account the pathogenic and pathoplastic influence of the comic books." In plainer language: comic books not only inspire evil but suggest a form for the evil to take...
...Without a cent of backing, famed Dr. Frederic Wertham launched for Harlem Negroes a now successful...
...Will to Survive. Because Harlem with only one-fifth of Manhattan's population, accounts for more than half its delinquency, Dr. Wertham concentrates on neurotic youngsters. One-fifth of his patients are children...
...doctor insisted, and his clinic has proved, that Negroes are no more happy-go-lucky-or neurotic-than other people. Dr. Wertham has also found that Negroes' mental troubles, though aggravated by their underprivileged status, are essentially no different from those of his wealthy private patients. "The only difference," he says, "is that here in Harlem the trouble is much more naked and obvious. . . . What the Negro needs, and what psychiatry must help him find, is the will to survive in a hostile world...