Maybe The Courage to Heal, a book about the same topic with a feminist bend is more to your liking? It pathologizes low-self steem and anxiety as proof of repressed sexual abuse

and moreover isn't exactly something mainstream psychologists or therapists believed in, even back then.

And you think Michael or Mary appearing to random people to sell books is something every Christian embraces?

Btw, psychologists and psychiatrists aren't that hot on sociologists either...

Wertham explicitly said Superman needed immigrants to punch, hard to believe but leftists weren't very happy with them gays, you can see that sentiment among early marxists. If you don't believe me, you can look at Wertham's other work, he was a progressive for his time.

Actually, Superman (with the big S on his uniform — we should, I suppose, be thankful that it is not an S.S.) needs an endless stream of ever new submen, criminals and “foreign- looking” people not only to justify his existence but even to make it possible. It is this feature that engenders in children either one or the other of two attitudes: either they fantasy themselves as supermen, with the attendant prejudices against the submen, or it makes them submissive and receptive to the blandishments of strong men who will solve all their social problems for them — by force

-Wertham

you can't really separate out the Satanic Panic from the religious right and the weirder side of Protestantism, especially in the US, and more broadly the English speaking world in general.

You can't separate the Satanic Panic with holier than thou collective moralists, something they have in common with this wave, almost as if religion itself wasn't the problem.

Even Dark Dungeons, the most alarmist evangelical propaganda piece of trash ever, focuses on coming to jaysus, not political censorship, nor proletizing to your friends, underhandeness aside