This week marks 98 years since a patient first stepped into an old farmhouse in Topeka, marking the beginning of one of the world’s most well-respected and influential leaders in modern mental health care. It was 1925 that C.F. Menninger and his sons, Karl and William Menninger, first began seeing patients in their clinic. The family of psychiatrists became renowned for their holistic approach to mental health, unheard of at the time. Thousands of patients from around the U.S. and world came to “tiny” Topeka throughout the 20th century to see the practice, and several of the world’s leading psychiatrists and mental health experts also received their start through the family.
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