About
American psychiatrist who founded the Menninger Foundation and the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas. In his book, The Human Mind, he famously argues that the mentally ill were only slightly different than sane individuals.
Before Fame
He started the Menninger Clinic with his son and hired his closest friends and brother to work there as well.
Trivia
He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by Jimmy Carter in 1981 and he was among the first members of the Society for General Systems Research.
Family Life
His brother William played a leading role in the US Army's psychiatric work.
Associated With
His ideas have been said to take after those of Sigmund Freud.
