Hilde L. Mosse (28. January 1912 – 1982) was a German-American psychiatrist. The sister of famed historian of Nazism

George Mosse Gerhard "George" Lachmann Mosse (September 20, 1918 – January 22, 1999) was an American historian, who emigrated from Nazi Germany first to Great Britain and then to the United States. He was professor of history at the University of Iowa, the ...

, 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 Lafarg ...

, 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.

Early years

Work in Harlem

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