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That was a typical evening last week at Harlem's Lafargue Clinic. The doctor-famed Psychiatrist Frederic Wertham (TIME Feb. 18, 1946). Dr. Wertham's clime, launched without a cent of backing 21 months ago, is little richer than when it started, but it has become an impressive, going concern. Its staff, all unpaid includes 14 psychiatrists, 12 topflight social workers, a dozen other specialists and clerical workers...
Ever since he was a young psychiatry professor at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Wertham had brooded over the fact that Negroes even if they could afford a psychiatrist' could seldom get one. (Of some 4,500 U.S. psychiatrists, fewer than 25 are Negroes.) With the enthusiastic help of Negro friends, Dr. Wertham and his colleagues found a home for a clinic in the basement of Harlem's St. Philip's Episcopal Church, and opened it to all comers. Fee per treatment (if the patient...
Manhattan Psychiatrist Frederic Wertham, president of the Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy, who likes Author Ward's psychic attitude, believes that The Snake Pit is "so good that you cannot read it in one sitting." Laymen, while appreciating the literary skill that illuminates the weird, narrow private life of the insane, may feel that The Snake Pit is just another morbid addition to the current boom in morbid pathological fiction...
Manhattan Psychiatrist Frederic Wertham had undergone, while conscious, two serious operations for dangerous blood vessel conditions in his legs. Due to the nature of his illness, scopolamine, the "truth drug," was given instead of an anesthetic. While the surgeon's knife cut into his flesh, Psychiatrist Wertham enthusiastically dictated to a hovering stenographer a stream-of-consciousness description of his mental processes...
...Freud's theory that the sick man withdraws his libido back upon his own ego, Dr. Wertham says: "My libido certainly was withdrawn . . . my interest decidedly restricted [to] my immediate situation...