Hilde L. Mosse (28. January 1912 – 1982) was a German-American psychiatrist. The sister of famed historian of Nazism George Mosse, she, along with fellow psychiatrist

Fredric Wertham Fredric Wertham (; born Friedrich Ignatz Wertheimer, March 20, 1895 – November 18, 1981) was a German–American psychiatrist and author. Wertham had an early reputation as a progressive psychiatrist who treated poor black patients at his Lafa ...

, helped to form the Lafargue Clinic in

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. She shared Wertham's view that comic books were pathological influences on children, though was nowhere near as public a figure as her colleague.

Early years

Mosse was born in 1912 into a wealthy Jewish family in

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, and was the granddaughter of publisher and philanthropist Rudolf Mosse. She attended medical school at the

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, and emigrated to the United States in 1939.

Work in Harlem

In 1946, Mosse helped to found the Lafargue Clinic, a progressive, low-cost mental hospital for residents of Harlem. She, along with

, were the clinic's two main doctors. Mosse would volunteer there until the clinic's closure in 1959.

References

* Mendes, Gabriel N. (2015). ''Under The Strain of Color: Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry.'' Ithaca: Cornell University Press. . 1912 births 1982 deaths Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States American women psychiatrists American people of German-Jewish descent American psychiatrists German women psychiatrists German psychiatrists Jewish physicians 20th-century American physicians 20th-century German physicians 20th-century German women physicians 20th-century American women physicians {{Psychiatrist-stub

Early years

Work in Harlem

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