Activity Therapy at Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1980
These four photographs show some of the Activity Therapy provided for the treatment of patients. The Menninger Clinic philosophy of treatment was the bio-psycho-social approach. This philosophy of treatment integrated medical, psychodynamic, developmental, and family systems to treat the total health of patients.

Activity Therapy at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas
Date: January 1985
These two photographs illustrate some of the therapists and instruments used in music therapy. Lane Chazdon is with his guitar and Ken Dugan is playing the hammer dulcimer. The Menninger Clinic philosophy of treatment was the bio-psycho-social approach. This philosophy of treatment integrated medical, psychodynamic, developmental, and family systems to treat the total health of patients.

Activity Therapy staff on 'Hat Day" at Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas
Date: August 1989
The Menninger Clinic activity therapy staff are having their fun on 'Hat Day". Left to right are Roger Nyfeler, Barb Shapiro, John Barrett, Dan Albury, Leigh Humphries, Andy Hines, unidentified staff member and Holly Smith. The Menninger Clinic philosophy of treatment was the bio-psycho-social approach. This philosophy of treatment integrated medical, psychodynamic, developmental, and family systems to treat the total health of patients.

ADARP staff at Menninger Clinic, Topeka, Kansas
Date: November 1988
Staff of the ADARP (Alcohol and Drug Addictions Rehabilitation Program) review the book 100 Best Treatment Centers. Left to right are Dr. Lindsay Levine, Bob Meyers, Dr. Pat Harper and Mike McCurtain, MSW. Menninger is a leading psychiatric hospital dedicated to treating individuals with mood, personality, anxiety and addictive disorders, teaching mental health professionals and advancing mental healthcare through research. It was located in Topeka, Kansas, from 1925 to 2003 and is now in Houston, Texas.

Adjunctive Therapy at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas
Date: Bulk 1962-1967
These two black and white photographs show different adjunctive therapies available in the 1960's for Menninger patients. The Menninger Clinic philosophy of treatment was the bio-psycho-social approach. This treatment integrated medical, psychodynamic, developmental, and family systems to treat the total health of patients.

Art Therapy at Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1980-1900
Art Therapists Bob Ault and John Barrett and an unidentified art therapy intern are shown working in the art studio. The Menninger Clinic philosophy of treatment was the bio-psycho-social approach. This philosphy of treatment integrated medical, psychodynamic, developmental, and family systems to treat the total health of patients.

Bicycle repair activity therapy group at Menninger, Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1967
The bicycle repair activity therapy group at the Menninger Psychiatric Clinic, Topeka, Kansas, reconditioned bikes and wagons for needy children in Topeka. Some of the therapists who worked with this group were Red Pratt, Philip Rice, Don Wylie, Dean Page and Arley Laeffler.

Historic Psychiatry original miscellaneous documents
Date: 1751 - 1961
These are a variety of handwritten and typed letters, lectures, autographs, news clippings, biographical information, images and sketches, court documents, and other documents related to the history of psychiatry. These documents are housed in four boxes and the folders within are arranged alphabetically by surname or title, and they are included in the larger collection of historic psychiatry material in the Menninger Archives. Authors come from such fields as medicine, religion, prison and other reform and advocacy movements, politics, the military, etc. The documents themselves sometimes provide significant information, and sometimes they were collected because their authors were significant historical figures. Some of the individuals found in Box 1 include James Mark Baldwin, Ludwig Binswanger, Eugen Bleuler, Jean-Martin Charcot, Elizabeth Fry, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Carl Jung. Some of the individuals found in Box 2 include Alfred Adler, Robert Frost, and Washinton Irving. This box also includes a 68-page handwritten notebook by Dr. W.W. Reed entitled "Reminiscenses About the Treatment of the Insane." Some of the individuals found in Box 3 include Amariah Brigham and Frederick van Eeden. This box also includes a correspondence file (1883-1888) on Ellen Kehoe, a patient at the Worcester Lunatic Hospital in Massachusetts, and a series of drawings from the 1920s and 1930s by a Belgian patient suffering from paranoia named Andreas at the Kankakee State Hospital in Illinois. The drawings were donated by Dr. J.B. Gier, formerly of the Topeka Veteran's Administration Hospital, who knew the patient and encouraged his work. Box 4 includes a miscellaneous folder regarding insane asylums and contains legal documents, postcard images, and receipts for services. Languages include English, German, French and Italian, and transcriptions or translations follow some of the documents.

Horticultural Therapy at Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1990
John Zimmerman of Plant Operations is inspecting some of the flower seedlings growing in the West Campus greenhouse. Planted in January, transplanted in February, they will be planted in the West Campus and Children's Division flower beds in May. The Menninger Clinic philosophy of treatment was the bio-psycho-social approach. This philosophy of treatment integrated medical, psychodynamic, developmental, and family systems to treat the total health of patients. The milieu of a pleasing campus with colorful flowers added to the treatment surroundings.

Kathryn Zerbe, M.D., with her book at the Menninger Clinic, Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1993
Kathryn Zerbe is shown with her newly published book, "The Body Betrayed : women, eating disorders and treatment. Dr. Zerbe wrote extensively on women's issues." She was vice president of Education, Research and Applications and also the section chief of the Eating Disorders unit at Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas.

Menninger Family Therapy Training Program for Community Practitioners in Topeka, Kansas
Date: May 1978
This photograph is of the first graduating class of the two year Family therapy Training Program for Community Practitioners at the Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas. It shows the faculty and graduates.