Morris Fraser

Morris Fraser
Citizenship	British
Occupation	Child psychiatrist
Years active	1971 -
Employer(s)	Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children (former) Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast (ditto)
Academic background
Alma mater	Royal College of Physicians

v t e The Troubles in Ireland

1960s and 1970s Battle of the Bogside/1969 riots RTÉ bombing Operation Banner Battle of St Matthew's Falls Curfew Crossmaglen bombing Scottish soldiers' killings Operation Demetrius Ballymurphy massacre Newry killings Red Lion Pub bombing McGurk's Bar bombing Balmoral showroom bombing Bloody Sunday Abercorn Restaurant bombing Donegall St bombing Battle at Springmartin Dungiven ambush Battle of Lenadoon Springhill massacre Bloody Friday Operation Motorman Claudy bombing Newry customs bombing Sanaghanroe attack Benny's Bar bombing Annie's Bar massacre Belturbet bombing Dublin bombings New Lodge Six shooting Coleraine bombings Rose & Crown Bar bombing Clogher barracks attack Dublin & Monaghan bombings Mountainview Tavern attack Bleary Darts Club shooting Strand Bar bombing Forkhill beer keg bomb Miami Showband killings Bayardo Bar attack Tullyvallen massacre October 1975 attacks Drummuckavall ambush Dublin Airport bombing Dundalk & Silverbridge attacks Central Bar bombing Reavey and O'Dowd killings Kingsmill massacre Castleblayney bombing Hillcrest Bar bombing Flagstaff Hill incident Charlemont pub attacks Walker's Bar attack Chlorane Bar attack Ramble Inn attack Stag Inn attack Andersonstown incident Garryhinch ambush 1976 Balmoral bombing Jonesborough Gazelle shootdown La Mon restaurant bombing Warrenpoint ambush Dungannon land mine attack 1980s Dunmurry train bombing Lough Foyle attacks Altnaveigh landmine attack Glasdrumman ambush Divis Flats bombing Droppin Well bombing Ballygawley land mine attack Darkley killings Kesh ambush Strabane ambush Newry mortar attack Ballygawley barracks attack Birches barracks attack Clontibret invasion Loughgall ambush Remembrance Day bombing Milltown Cemetery attack Corporals killings Avenue Bar shooting Lisburn van bombing Aughanduff Lynx shootdown Ballygawley bus bombing Drumnakilly ambush Jonesborough ambush Derryard checkpoint attack 1990s Derrygorry Gazelle shootdown Downpatrick landmine attack Operation Conservation Armagh City roadside bombing Fort Victoria Proxy bombings Lough Neagh ambush Silverbridge Lynx shootdown Mullacreevie ambush Cappagh killings Craigavon mobile shop killings Glenanne barracks bombing Coagh ambush Musgrave Park Hospital bombing Craigavon Hyster killings Teebane bombing Sinn Féin Headquarters shooting Sean Graham bookmakers' shooting Clonoe ambush Cloghoge checkpoint attack Coalisland riots South Armagh sniper campaign Forensic Lab bombing James Murray's bookmakers attack Castlerock killings Cullaville occupation Battle of Newry Road Shankill Road bombing Greysteel massacre Fivemiletown ambush Crossmaglen Lynx shootdown 1994 Shankill Road killings Loughinisland massacre Killeeshil ambush Drumcree conflict Thiepval barracks bombing Coalisland attack 1997 riots Quinn brothers' killings Banbridge bombing Omagh bombing See also: The Troubles in Britain & Europe, Assassinations during the Troubles, and Loyalist feud

Fraser began treating children psychologically impacted by the Northern Ireland conflict in 1969, ^[8] after which he started publishing some of the first systematic studies about the conflict's mental health effects. ^[1] In March 1971, he published a study in the British Journal of Psychiatry, titled "Disorder and Defenses", which investigated the rates of pathological symptoms among Belfast children affected by the Northern Ireland conflict riots. The paper won an award by the British Mental Health Research Fund. ^[9] Fraser was among the social workers who defended the integration of Catholic and Protestant schools as a means of stopping the conflict. ^[8]

In his 1973 book Children in Conflict: Growing up in Northern Ireland, he discusses the experiences of children who were traumatized by the violence of the Northern Ireland conflict. ^{[7] [10]} The findings of the book were based on previous academic research about the effects of war on children, as well as interviews conducted with 250 children. ^[11] Fraser has also reported on the use of children for military purposes during the conflict, which he said was more exploitative than it had been in Cyprus and Vietnam. ^{[8] [12]} His research also found that Belfast slum residents in the 1970s were more unhappy in general than African-American ghetto dwellers. ^[2]

Fraser published The Death of Narcissus in 1976, a book about pedophilia that analyses common motifs relating to children in the creative works of Vladimir Nabokov, Dean Farrar, J. M. Barrie, Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald, E. M. Forster, Thomas Mann, Oscar Wilde, Charles Kingsley, Hugh Walpole and Henry James, among others. ^{[13] [14] [15]} Fraser is a former member of PIE and has treated pedophile patients. He has also written for a number of European pedophile magazines. Throughout the latter half of the 20th century, he was prosecuted for a number of sexual crimes. ^{[5] [6] [13]}

References

1. Fields, Rona M. (1980). Northern Ireland: society under siege. New Brunswick, N.J: Transaction Books. p. 31. ISBN   978-0-87855-806-3.
2. Times, Bernard Weinraub Special to The New York (1971-12-25). "Psychiatrist Compares Slums in U.S. and Ulster". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331.
3. Izbicki, John (May 10, 1973). "Children in Conflict by Morris Fraser (Secker & Warburg)". The Daily Telegraph. p. 10.
4. "N. Ireland's children living in trouble". Press of Atlantic City. March 27, 1977. p. 30.
5. "Abuser counselled children traumatised by Troubles". BelfastTelegraph.co.uk. 2014-09-06. ISSN   0307-1235.
6. "Dr Morris Fraser: Paedophile psychiatrist worked with children after abuse conviction, study finds". BBC News. 2016-03-31.
7. "Northen Ireland's 'children of conflict' pawns of war". New Castle News. May 4, 1977. p. 51.
8. "N. Irish children reflect fear". The Houston Post. December 26, 1971. p. 32.
9. Times, Bernard Weinraub Special to The New York (1971-03-14). "Psychiatrist in Belfast Finds Children Are Deeply Disturbed by the Violence". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331.
10. "CHILDREN IN CONFLICT: Growing Up in Northern Ireland". Kirkus Reviews.
11. Heard, Dorothy H. (1979). "Children in conflict: Growing up in Northern Ireland, by Morris Fraser. New York: Basic books, 1977, pp ix + 167". Aggressive Behavior. 5 (1): 88–90. doi:10.1002/1098-2337(1979)5:1<88::AID-AB2480050111>3.0.CO;2-B.
12. Franks, Lucinda (1977-04-10). "Young Fun in Northern Ireland". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331.
13. Lambert, Kenneth (1978). "Reviews". Journal of Analytical Psychology. 23 (1): 95–96. doi:10.1111/j.1465-5922.1978.00095.x. ISSN   0021-8774.
14. Taylor, A. J. P. (February 6, 1977). "Pedophilia into art". The Observer. p. 31.
15. Huxley, Francis (January 13, 1977). "The Peter Pan Principle". The Guardian. p. 14.