Seduction of the Innocent
Nonfiction work
By: Frederic Wertham
Date: 1954
Source: Wertham, Fredric, M.D. Seduction of the Innocent. New York: Rinehart & Company, 1954, 4–5, 8–9, 19, 22–23, 33, 395.
About the Author: Frederic Wertham M.D. (1895–1981) graduated medical school at the University of Wurzburg. He served in a variety of posts, including the Director of the Mental Hygiene Clinic at Bellevue Hospital for ten years. He also served as the Psychiatric Consultant to U.S. Senate Kefauver Subcommittee to Study Organized Crime. The author of at least a dozen books, Wertham focused on how people are "acculturated" to violence, and on the influence of television and print on violence.
Introduction
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