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In the News (Tue 15 Dec 09)

  
  Encyclopedia
Charles Frederick Menninger (1862–1953) was born in Topeka, Kans. A general practitioner, he and his son Karl Augustus (1893–1990), organized a group practice of psychiatric specialists in 1920.
Karl Augustus Menninger was born in Topeka and educated at the University of Wisconsin and Harvard University.
William Claire Menninger was born in Topeka and educated at Cornell University.
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 Karl Menninger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Karl Augustus Menninger (July 22, 1893 - July 18, 1990) was an American psychiatrist and a member of the famous Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation and the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas.
The Menninger Foundation was established in 1941 and quickly became a U.S. psychiatric and psychoanalytic center.
In Menninger's letter he puts the terms diagnosis, patients and treatment in quotes, suggesting that he had agreed with Szasz's arguments that psychiatric diagnosis is a medical fraud, psychiatric patients are prisoners and psychiatric treatments are tortures.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Karl_Menninger   (486 words)

  
 CJOnline.com | The Topeka Capital-Journal | Menninger close to announcing partner 05/26/02
Menninger wants to be linked to a university because its leaders believe that is the best way to integrate education and research with its mission of providing mental health care.
Listen to audio from Ian Aitken, president and COO of Menninger Clinic and John McKelvey, president and CEO of Menninger Foundation.
In the past, he said, there was tension between KU and Menninger, dating to the 1950s when Dr. Karl Menninger, co-founder of the Menninger Clinic, had a rift with Franklin Murphy, KU's dean of the medical school.
www.cjonline.com /stories/052602/bus_men.shtml   (1462 words)

  
 CJOnline.com | The Topeka Capital-Journal | Menninger, Baylor once again team up 12/05/02
Menninger had announced plans two years ago to form a partnership with Baylor and Methodist but called off the deal in summer 2001.
Walter Menninger, left, listens as Dr. Stuart Yudofsky, chairman of the Baylor College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, right, talks to John McKelvey, center, Menninger Foundation president and chief executive officer, and Hill Feinberg, foundation vice chairman, during Wednesday's news conference.
Roy Menninger, chairman emeritus of the Menninger trustees, said change was inevitable.
www.cjonline.com /stories/120502/com_menninger.shtml   (992 words)

  
 Newswise
The Menninger Clinic announced on December 4, 2002, that its Boards of Directors and Trustees unanimously approved a partnership with Baylor College of Medicine and The Methodist Hospital to create a comprehensive, world-class center for psychiatric care, research, and education.
The Menninger Clinic announced today that its Boards of Directors and Trustees unanimously approved a partnership with Baylor College of Medicine and The Methodist Hospital to create a comprehensive, world-class center for psychiatric care, research, and education.
Menninger will move its Topeka, Kansas-based clinic to 2801 N. Gessner Road, Houston, during the spring and be fully operational in its new location by early June 2003.
www.newswise.com /articles/view?id=PARTNER.MNC   (1192 words)

  
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Menninger submitted its proposed partnership to the attorney general's office in December of last year for approval.
Menninger has the right to satisfy existing obligations, including fully funding its pension program, from the sale of assets in which the foundation does not have 100 percent ownership or full beneficial interest.
The foundation can examine Menninger books and insure appropriate accounting and business practices are used in land transactions and the satisfaction of existing obligations.
www.accesskansas.org /ksag/Press/2003/may14menninger.htm   (680 words)

  
 Menninger Bible Study - Topeka
Menninger’s first class was in January 1898 and consisted of 28 women.
Menninger constantly urged "know your Bible," and her course is designed to make the Bible its own interpreter, dealing with facts instead of opinions, finding in the Bible a rule of faith and practice for the various demands of life.
Flo Menninger and her husband, Dr. C.F. Menninger, were parents of Dr. Karl Menninger, Dr. William Menninger and Dr. Edwin Menninger, founders of the famed Menninger Foundation.
www.ywca.org /site/pp.asp?c=8nKFITNvEoG&b=1122915   (329 words)

  
 professional news   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Menninger, one of Topeka’s largest employers, fell victim to the financial pressures that have accompanied an upheaval in the U.S. health care system over the last decade or so.
In announcing the move to Texas, Menninger officials acknowledged that the organization lost nearly $3 million in 1999 and tapped its $100 million endowment to the tune of $12 million to cover the shortfall.
Menninger said he will be among those moving to Houston, where he will retain his title of president and CEO of the Menninger Foundation.
www.psych.org /pnews/00-11-03/we.html   (594 words)

  
 Menninger, Karl Augustus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Topeka, Kans. The Menninger Clinic, conceived with the idea of collecting many specialists in one center, was founded in Topeka in 1919 by Karl and his father, Charles Frederick (1862–1953); in 1925 they were joined by William.
The Menninger Foundation, established for research, training, and public education in psychiatry, came into existence in 1941 and soon became a U.S. psychiatric and psychoanalytic center.
At the close of World War II, Karl Menninger was instrumental in founding the Winter Veterans Administration Hospital, Topeka, which functioned as a mental hospital and as the center of the largest psychiatric training program in the world.
www.bartleby.com /65/me/Menninge.html   (251 words)

  
 Menninger Foundation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This approach integrated the foundations of medical, psychodynamic, developmental, and family systems to focus on the overall health of patients.
In the 1960s the Menninger Clinic studied Swami Rama, a noted yogi, specifically investigating his ability to exercise voluntary control of bodily processes (such as heartbeat) which are normally considered non-voluntary (autonomous).
Menninger announced its affiliation with Baylor College of Medicine and The Methodist Hospital in December 2002.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Menninger_Foundation   (679 words)

  
 FNC | Cover Story
Foundation News and Commentary embodies and promotes the goals of the Council on Foundations, serving as a vehicle for information, ideas, analysis and commentary relevant to effective grantmaking.
Says Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation President and CEO Julie Rogers, "Be conscious of hiring program officers who share the foundation's core values and have worked in community-based organizations." Marjorie Fine examines the way that individuals have implemented their values in their careers.
In foundations, the annual performance review is an opportunity to assess each staff member's ability to serve nonprofits effectively and in line with the grantmaker's mission and values.
www.foundationnews.org /CME/article.cfm?ID=1537   (4168 words)

  
 Menninger Family Archives
This collaboration led to the creation of the Menninger professional journal, the Bulletin of Mennniger Clinic, of which Jeanetta was the editor from 1936-1970; she also served as the Director of the Division of Publications from 1946-64.
Roy Wright Menninger was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1926, the oldest son of Catharine and William C. Menninger.
He began his administrative role in the Foundation as cochairman of the Division of School Mental Health, and served in various administrative capacities until he was appointed President in 1967, succeeding his father, William, in the post after his death in 1966.
www.kshs.org /research/collections/documents/personalpapers/findingaids/menninger/menninger_family.htm   (2678 words)

  
 John M. O'Quinn Foundation Pledges $25 Million to Future International Mental Health Campus
With a $25 million pledge to Menninger from the John M. O'Quinn Foundation, he demonstrates rising to the challenges of mental illness and addictions.
Menninger currently operates its specialty inpatient psychiatric programs for adolescents and adults about 40 minutes from the Texas Medical Center at 2801 Gessner in west Houston.
Menninger relocated to Houston from Kansas in 2003 and affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine and The Methodist Hospital in the Texas Medical Center.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-07-2006/0004393117&EDATE=   (470 words)

  
 TIME.com: The Kansas Moralist -- Aug. 6, 1973 -- Page 1
Menninger had already conferred with a number of people, including a publisher who is bringing out one of his three books for 1973.
At first the local citizenry were determined not to have a "maniac ward" in town, but the Menningers persuaded them to withdraw their opposition and even to underwrite a psychiatric hospital.
From this nucleus has grown the present Menninger Clinic, by far the most famous psychiatric hospital in the U.S., which pioneered in research, and was one of the first to set up a juvenile division (the Southard School).
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,904012,00.html   (742 words)

  
 Menninger Foundation Corporate Archives
Inspired by the establishment of the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research a quarter-century before, the Menninger Foundation was initially created as an entity exclusive of the existing Menninger Diagnostic Clinic, a medical facility founded by Drs.
The arrangement of the Menninger Foundation’s Corporate Archives is a synopsis of the Foundation’s organization, approximating its actual organization but necessarily consolidating it to account for the changing structure of the Menninger Clinic and Foundation from their inception through the early 1990s.
William Menninger was once of the founding members of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, established in 1946, and was elected as the organization’s first chairman.
www.kshs.org /research/collections/documents/personalpapers/findingaids/menninger/menninger_corporate.htm   (3701 words)

  
 Washburn University Board of Regents
The Chaplain of the Menninger campus said he had conducted workshops in the building for over six years and asked that the Board consider the Nunemaker/Menninger name as the primary donors, recognizing a prominent Topekan who gave back to her community after a career with Avon in New York.
She said a lot of Topekans were under the impression when the building was moved to the Washburn campus that it would be here as the Nunemaker/Menninger chapel and that in her informal poll quite a few were surprised of the name change.
Menninger noted that when the building was given to Washburn there were two other possibilities of gifting of the structure to others.
www.washburn.edu /admin/bor/111904REGMIN.html   (3816 words)

  
 IN SHORT: NONFICTION; A FAMILY INSTITUTION - New York Times
By 1973, the Menninger Foundation, with a budget of nearly $15 million, employed 900 people in 39 buildings across two campuses.
Friedman convincingly argues that Karl Menninger, the innovative, volatile older brother, and Will, his gentle, charming sibling, struggled with one another for control of the institution throughout their lifetimes.
Still, ''Menninger: The Family and the Clinic'' is a thorough, accomplished addition to the history of American mental health treatment.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0D6163AF937A15755C0A966958260   (316 words)

  
 At The Menninger Clinic in Houston, Texas, our entire staff is dedicated to making a positive difference in the health ...
Roy Menninger, MD Member, Board of Directors of the Menninger-Baylor College of Medicine-The Methodist Hospital Foundation; Adjunct Professor, Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine; Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Kansas-Wichita; Chairman Emeritus, Menninger Trustees; Past President and CEO, The Menninger Foundation
Dr. Roy Menninger succeeded his father, William C. Menninger, MD, as President and CEO of The Menninger Foundation in 1967, following Dr. Will’s death in 1966.
Walter Menninger, MD, gave their support to Menninger Trustees to establish an affiliation in the spring of 2003 with Baylor College of Medicine and The Methodist Hospital that would preserve the mission of Menninger.
www.menningerclinic.com /about/roy-bio.htm   (956 words)

  
 Board Members   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He was a staff psychiatrist at the Menninger Foundation from 1967 until they closed.
He was the director of partial hospitalization services at the Menninger Clinic, a position he held from 1971 to 1999.
He held faculty positions at the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry in Psychiatry and Group Psychotherapy, the Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis, at the Menninger Foundation Continuing Education Program in Experiential Group Psychoanalysis, and at the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute.
www.aabh.org /public/generalinfo/Lawrence_Kennedy.htm   (626 words)

  
 Attorney General approves Menninger settlement Kansas Nurse - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The new charitable foundation has yet to be named but will focus solely on mental health.
Although the settlement allows the attorney general to create and appoint all members of the resulting charitable foundation board, Klinc indicated he will remain consistent with his past actions and extend invitations to the governor and legislative leaders to join in the board appointment process.
Menninger's and the stale of Kansas entered into a formal agreement/settlement that allowed for the transition for Menningers to relocate to Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Methodist Hospital in Houston.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3940/is_200309/ai_n9263294   (689 words)

  
 Harvard Gazette: McLean Hospital mourns loss of revered researcher
He trained at the Menninger Foundation School of Clinical Psychology and the Winter Veterans Administration Hospital in Topeka, Kansas, as well as at the Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis.
From 1946 to 1968 he was on the staff of the Menninger Foundation, where he also served as director of research training.
He also received the American Psychological Foundation Gold Medal Award for lifetime achievement in the field of psychology, the Stanley R. Dean Award from the American College of Psychiatrists, the William K. Warren Award from the International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, and the Townsend Harris Medal of City College of New York.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2004/06.10/41-holzmanobit.html   (765 words)

  
 journal [2002]
The lawsuit began in July when one of Dr. Karl A. Menninger's adult children sued the Menninger Foundation and related organizations to prevent her father's archives from being transferred to Texas, where the mental health organization had planned to move.
Rosemary J. Menninger, who filed the lawsuit and is one of four adult children of the late Dr. Karl A. Menninger, declined on Monday to give specifics of the agreement.
The dispute in court began July 19 when Rosemary Menninger sought to block moving her father's archives from Topeka to the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston along with the rest of the Menninger archives.
www.plambeck.org /oldhtml/journal/journal2002dec.htm   (1458 words)

  
 Research with Swami Rama
This demonstration and others were performed at the Menninger Foundation, in Topeka, Kansas in 1970.
This was done in the presence of the research scientists at the Menninger Foundation.
The right photograph is the mask and plexiglass plate that was placed over Swami Rama's face by the research scientists during the experiments so that breath could not accidentally affect the needles.
www.geocities.com /swamiramabio/ResearchSwamiRama.htm   (347 words)

  
 Texas Medical Center NEWS
The Menninger Clinic announced Dec. 4 that its boards of directors and trustees unanimously approved a partnership with Baylor College of Medicine and The Methodist Hospital to create a comprehensive, world-class center for psychiatric care, research, and education.
This partnership will enhance Menninger’s capabilities as a center of excellence in psychiatry and the behavioral sciences by combining Menninger’s clinical program with Baylor and Methodist’s educational and research strengths.
Menninger will move its Topeka, Kansas-based clinic to 2801 N. Gessner Rd. in Houston during the spring and be fully operational in its new location by this coming June.
www.tmc.edu /tmcnews/12_15_02/page_04.html   (982 words)

  
 Karl Menninger
Karl Menninger, M.D. is chairman of the board of trustees of the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas.
Menninger: Well, I think that the course we're on could be altered, but only if enough people believe what has been demonstrated, believe what we see coming, believe the wisest voices we hear all over the country, all over the world, for that matter, and do something about it.
Menninger: Well, most of us that are concerned with this scientifically, are pretty discouraged because, well, the Sermon on the Mount doesn't apply to them either very much.
sun3.lib.uci.edu /racyberlib/Quest/interview-karl_meninger.html   (3186 words)

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