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...Philip's best-known projects is the Lafargue Clinic (TIME, Dec. 1, 1947), where Manhattan Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham and a staff of 25 give psychiatric help, at 25? a session, to anyone, black or white. The clinic began in 1946 as a collaboration between Father Bishop, Psychiatrist Wertham and Negro Author Richard (Native Son) Wright. Nowadays, an average of 60 people a week come to the clinic for help...
Impertinence. The Nation's editors gave "a number of prominent psychiatrists" advance copies of the Ferman article and invited them to reply. Most refused. But from outspoken Psychiatrist-Author Fredric (The Show of Violence) Wertham came outspoken agreement: "What she writes rings true. In fact, I have encountered literally dozens of similar cases . . . Psychiatrists and psychoanalysts are the only physicians who blame the patient-or at least his relatives-when they do not cure...
From his long experience in New York City, Dr. Wertham was convinced that eight out of ten psychoanalyses should not have been started, and that six out of ten were more harmful than helpful. "I believe . . . that the patients are often right, and so are their relatives," he concluded. "If this be treason, send me to St. Elizabeth...
Right Hand. A fortnight ago, in the Telegraph's erudite gossip column, "London Day by Day," by "Peterborough" (Hugo Wertham), an unobtrusive item recorded an exceptional occurrence at the Telegraph itself. After 48 years on the staff, 70-year-old Editor Watson was retiring. His successor, who took over last week: grey-haired Colin Reith Coote, 56, deputy editor and Watson's right-hand man for the last five years...
Finally, the case histories in this book are intensely interesting, but some of them require a pretty strong stomach. For instance, one of Dr. Wertham's patients cut up a little girl, fried her with carrots and onions...