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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.

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Board of Education. Despite this, Wertham remains best known for his concerns about the effects of violent imagery in mass media and the effects of comic books on the development of children. Besides Seduction of the Innocent , Wertham also wrote articles and testified before government inquiries into comic books, most notably as part of a U.

Congressional inquiry into the comic book industry. Wertham's work, in addition to the comic book hearings, led to the creation of the Comics Code Authority , although later scholars cast doubt on his observations. He did not change his name legally to Fredric Wertham until He was very much influenced by Dr. Emil Kraepelin , a professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of Munich, and worked briefly at the Kraepelin Clinic in Munich in Kraepelin emphasized the effects of environment and social background on psychological development.

Around this time Wertham corresponded and visited with Sigmund Freud , who influenced him in his choice of psychiatry as his specialty.