Anyone Seen this SOTI Related Book? (Updated with new item on p. 2)) 1 1

[Sarg]

On 10/29/2020 at 11:18 AM, sfcityduck said:

Here's another cool SOTI related item that I haven't seen before:

Anyone seen this one?  This is a single article academic journal printing of Wertham's "Psychiatry and Censorship" editorial from the American Journal of Psychotherapy, Vol. XI, No. 2, pages 249-253 (April 1957).  These single article pamphlets are a pretty standard thing for Law Journals.  They are given to authors to distribute as they see fit, usually for self-promotion.  I have a box of them from the article I wrote back when I was in law school.  I did not know the academic journals of other disciplines did these kind of single article printings for their article authors, but it makes perfect sense that they do.  It's the only thing the authors get.   This editorial discusses SOTI and censorship.

 

 

Nice. These things are called "off-prints" in the used book trade. 

[Sarg]

On 10/29/2020 at 11:23 AM, sfcityduck said:

Here's the editorial for those who want to read it.  It's short:

 

 

 

Some insightful comments from Wertham here on the trendiness and subjectivity of psychiatry vis-a-vis pornography and censorship. What psychiatrists of the 1920s condemned as worthy of censorship, a short generation later, was being shrugged off as irrelevant by the same medical experts. I wonder if anyone's ever written a book on this subject?