As a result, Nelson Algren described Ellson"s work as "just straight case studies."įrederic Wertham was an aficionado of Ellson"s work, favorably reviewing Ellson"s 1949 novel "Duke" in the American Journal of Psychotherapy, and providing an introduction to Ellson"s 1950 novel Tomboy.Īs well, Wertham subsequently cited Tomboy in the first chapter of his own 1954 Seduction of the Innocent.
He subsequently stated that many of the patients viewed him as a "father confessor", and eagerly told him their stories while trusting that he would not report them to law enforcement.
Ellson was a social worker, recreational therapist, and nurse"s aide at Bellevue Hospital, where he encountered the adolescent psychiatric patients on whom he based much of his fiction.
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