Fredric Wertham, German-American psychologist and author (died 1981)

Fredric Wertham

German-American psychiatrist (1895–1981)

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…