It's the birthday of the man known as the "dean of American psychiatry"
(From The Writer's Almanac - July 22, 2008)
It's the birthday of the man known as the "dean of American psychiatry," Karl Menninger, born in Topeka, Kansas (1893). His ideas about mental illnesses and how to treat them were revolutionary for his time—and many of the approaches he advocated and developed became instituted in modern psychiatric treatment centers. » more
