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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Family of American psychiatrists, including Charles Frederick (1862–1953) and his sons Karl Augustus (1893–1990) and William Claire (1899–1966). The family founded the Menninger Clinic (1920) and the Menninger Foundation (1941), both dedicated to psychiatric treatment, research, training, and public education.
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- noun United States psychiatrist and son of Charles Menninger (1899-1966)
- noun United States psychiatrist and son of Charles Menninger (1893-1990)
- noun United States psychiatrist who with his sons founded a famous psychiatric clinic in Topeka (1862-1953)
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Examples
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"Didn't you call Menninger Institute this morning?"
Minnesota Menage Jack Swenson 2010
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Part of the problem, continued Menninger, is that in modern society a child's desires are constantly denied, and then he is expected to refrain from expressing his disappointment and anger at making the adjustment.
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Part of the problem, continued Menninger, is that in modern society a child's desires are constantly denied, and then he is expected to refrain from expressing his disappointment and anger at making the adjustment.
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He called the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, an hour’s drive away, and asked about the steps involved in arranging for voluntary or involuntary commitment.
Bitter Harvest Ann Rule 2000
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In the complex of mental hospitals still called Menninger's, thousands of doctors and nurses and patients heard the command.
World of Ptavvs Niven, Larry 1966
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In his study of the role of psychiatry in wartime, published in 1948, Menninger shocked many by characterizing the U.S. military during World War II, in a “technical, psychiatric sense,” as “fundamentally a homosexual society.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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William Menninger, a psychiatrist who served as chief consultant to the surgeon general of the army, became convinced that the culture of the wartime army rapidly increased homosexual activity.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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The success of any military endeavor, Menninger argued, “depended on the ability of men to get along with, live with, and work with other men, and to accept the almost total exclusion of women from their lives.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Menninger surmised that “for every homosexual who was referred or came to the Medical Department to be diagnosed and discharged, there were five or ten who never were detected.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Most people don't know it, but the founder of the Menninger Clinic, Charles Frederick Menninger, MD, was originally a homeopathic physician.
Homeopathy: A Healthier Way to Treat Depression? Dana Ullman 2010
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