Fredric Wertham
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German-American psychiatrist
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Why Is Fredric Wertham Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Fredric Wertham was a German-American psychiatrist and author. Wertham had an early reputation as a progressive psychiatrist who treated poor black patients at his Lafargue Clinic at a time of heightened discrimination in urban mental health practice. Wertham also authored a definitive textbook on the brain, and his institutional stressor findings were cited when courts overturned multiple segregation statutes, most notably in Brown v. Board of Education.
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