Karl A. Menninger: psychiatrist and moralist

Karl Augustus Menninger, whom the American Psychiatric Association declared "America's greatest living psychiatrist," died July 18, 1990, in Topeka, KS. He had lived there his entire life. In 1993 he would have been 100 years old. The name "Menninger" has become synonymous with psychiatry, principally through the work of this one man. In 1925, with his father and his brother William, he established the Menninger Foundation, a world-famous center for research, education, and treatment of mental illness. A leader in psychiatry for more than 70 years, Menninger wrote more than a dozen books and hundreds of articles. He gave thousands of lectures and directly helped thousands of psychiatric patients in addition to the hundreds of thousands of people he touched through his writings.