William C. Menninger, M.D., is speaking at the Menninger School of Psychiatry 20th reunion opening luncheon. Karl A. Menninger, M.D., is seated on the left and Lawrence Kennedy, M.D., is in the center of the photograph. Dr. CF., and his sons, Dr. Karl and Dr. Will, formed a group psychiatry practice in 1919. The Menninger Clinic as a sanitarium was established in 1925 with the purchase of a farm house and admittance of 12 patients. Their philosophy was that mental illness could be treated with an integrated medical, psychodynamic, and developmental approach for the total health of patients
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