Karl Menninger

“Instead of putting so much emphasis on different kinds…of illness,” Karl Menninger wrote in 1963, “we propose to think of all forms of mental illness as being essentially the same in quality and differing quantitatively.”

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

Karl Menninger and his brother William, a psychiatrist who had served as a general in World War II, were at the forefront of a postwar psychiatry that was confronted with an unavoidable question.

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

The problem with reaction was that it implied both nature and causes: that mental disorder was the result of “Man in transaction with his universe,” as Karl Menninger had put it, that there was a healthy way of conducting that transaction, and that psychiatrists knew what it was.

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

“We must attempt to explain how the observed maladjustment came about and what the meaning of this sudden eccentricity or desperate or aggressive outburst is,” Karl Menninger wrote.

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

The best I can imagine to sum up his work and influence is to imagine a cross between Walter Cronkite, Carol Gilligan, Fred Rodgers, Ruth Gordon, and Karl Menninger.

If you have a little extra cash…. 2005

Articles by Karl Menninger, Bruno Bettelheim, Caitlin Flanagan, and others on how to raise well-adjusted children.

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Articles by Karl Menninger, Bruno Bettelheim, Caitlin Flanagan, and others on how to raise well-adjusted children.

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Articles by Karl Menninger, Bruno Bettelheim, Caitlin Flanagan, and others on how to raise well-adjusted children.

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Articles by Karl Menninger, Bruno Bettelheim, Caitlin Flanagan, and others on how to raise well-adjusted children.

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The Vital Balance by Karl Menninger, by Martin Mayman, by Paul Pruyser

Psychiatry After Freud Meyerhoff, Hans 1964