Roy W. Menninger | |
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 Roy W. Menninger in 1947 | |
| Born | October 27, 1926 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Swarthmore College; Cornell University Medical College |
| Medical career | |
| Profession | Medicine |
| Field | Psychiatry |
| Institutions | Menninger Clinic |
Roy Wright Menninger (born October 27, 1926) is an American medical doctor and psychiatrist. He served as president and CEO of the Menninger Foundation from 1967 to 1993.
Roy Wright Menninger was born in 1926 as the first of three sons to William C. Menninger and his wife Catherine Wright, while they lived in New York. His father was completing an internship at Bellevue Hospital. The family returned to Topeka, Kansas in 1927, when his father joined the Menninger Clinic, with his brother Karl Menninger and father Charles Frederick Menninger. Menninger grew up in the world of medicine and psychiatry.
Menninger graduated from Swarthmore College in 1947 and from the Cornell University Medical College in 1951. [1] He interned at New York Hospital in New York City and served his residency in psychiatry at Boston State Hospital and Boston Psychopathic Hospital. [2] He was married in June 1951 to Ann Catherine Colwell. [3]
Early in his career, Menninger served as a teaching and research fellow at Harvard Medical School. He also served on the staff of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. [2] From 1953 to 1955, he served as a psychiatrist with the United States Army, including a tour of duty in Salzburg, Austria. Following his military service, he studied neurology in London. [2]
Beginning in 1961, he served as a staff psychiatrist of the C.F. Menninger Memorial Hospital in Topeka, Kansas. In March 1964, he also became co-director of the Menninger Foundation's Division of School Mental Health. [2] He became a nationally recognized expert on psychiatric issues relating to suicide [4] stress, [5] and personal satisfaction. [6]
In 1967, he was elected as president and CEO of the Menninger Foundation, operator of the Menninger Clinic and Menninger Hospital. [7] During his time as president, the Menninger Clinic was recognized as "one of the major psychiatric treatment and teaching facilities in the world." [8] Also under his leadership, the foundation successfully raised funds on a national basis to build a new $23-million hospital (completed in 1982) and underwent major expansion, extending its work to include group psychotherapy, family therapy, biofeedback, a halfway house, short-term psychotherapy, and an alcohol and drug rehabilitation program. [9] The Foundation grew during his presidency to 1,100 employees, a $65 million annual budget, and an endowment of $90 million. [7]
Lawrence J. Friedman, author of a book on the Menningers, characterized Roy Menninger's presidency as one in which the concern for fundraising and building construction was greater than that for psychiatric research. [10] Menninger said that he found Friedman's book "distasteful" and "a gossipy tabloid portrayal" of the family and foundation. [11]
In 1993, Menninger retired as president and CEO, and his brother, W. Walter Menninger, took over as president. [12] He remained as chairman of the foundation's board of trustees, overseeing the foundation's move to Houston in the early 2000s as part of a partnership with Baylor College of Medicine and the Methodist Health Care System. [9]
Menninger and John Nemiah co-edited the book American Psychiatry after World War II, 1944-1994. [13] [14]
Karl Augustus Menninger was an American psychiatrist and a member of the Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation and the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas.
William Claire Menninger was a co-founder with his brother Karl and his father of The Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas, an internationally known center for treatment of behavioral disorders.
The Menninger Foundation was founded in 1919 by the Menninger family in Topeka, Kansas. The Menninger Foundation, known locally as Menninger's, consists of a clinic, a sanatorium, and a school of psychiatry, all of which bear the Menninger name. Menninger's consisted of a campus at 5800 S.W. 6th Avenue in Topeka, Kansas which included a pool as well as the other aforementioned buildings. In 2003, the Menninger Clinic moved to Houston. The foundation was started in 1919 by Dr. Charles F. Menninger and his sons, Drs. Karl and William Menninger. It represented the first group psychiatry practice. "We had a vision," Dr. C. F. Menninger said, "of a better kind of medicine and a better kind of world."
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