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By the end of World War II, the subsequent discharge of millions of veterans fueled the need for psychiatric services and marked a turning point for Menninger. In 1946, Dr. Karl Menninger convinced Arthur Marshall, the envoy from the Veteran's Administration, on the concept of establishing a model training program in Topeka, utilizing a former Army hospital as the flagship VA hospital for the Menninger School of Psychiatry. Drs. Karl and Will Menninger assembled a faculty and went to work. The first class numbered 108 physicians, and overnight the Menninger School of Psychiatry became the largest training center in the world. Training of psychologists and social workers followed. Nursing education also received significant attention.
In those postwar times, five to seven percent of all the psychiatrists in the U.S. and Canada were trained at Menninger. The major contribution of the school was a greater commitment to a didactic curriculum, a team approach to diagnosis and treatment, and a model of diagnostic case study outline, elaborated by Dr. Karl in his "Manual for Psychiatric Case Study," that initiated a broad-based approach to diagnosis.
Date: 1946
Item Number: 226176
Call Number: Menninger Fdn. Photographic Collection, Box 9, #13
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 226176
Business and Industry - Health care - Clinics
Business and Industry - Health care - Mental health facilities
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Psychiatrists
Collections - Photograph - Menninger Foundation
Community Life - Community services - Mental health facilities
Date - 1940s - 1946
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Notable Kansans - Menninger, Karl Augustus, 1893-1990
People - Notable Kansans - Menninger, William Claire, 1899-1966
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Type of Material - Photographs
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