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|Body= The Menninger Foundation of Topeka, Kansas, began as an outpatient clinic in the 1920s serving the local Shawnee County populace for various ills. Karl Menninger began persuading his father, Charles Frederick, or C.F., to focus the clinic's area of expertise on psychiatric and mental health cases. The Menningers opened the first clinic in 1919. In 1925, they purchased a farmhouse on the outskirts of town for a sanitarium to provide long-term in-patient care. William Claire Menninger, Karl's youngest brother, joined Karl and their father in this practice that same year, fulfilling C.F.’s dream of a group practice with his sons.
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|Body= Construction on the Bartonville State Hospital began in 1885, and the main structure, an enormous building most closely resembling a medieval castle-was completed in 1887. The building was never used, apparently due to the structural damage caused when the abandoned mine shafts it was built over collapsed. The psychiatric hospital was rebuilt in 1902 under the direction of Dr. George Zeller and implemented a cottage system of 33 buildings, including patient and caretaker housing, a store, a power station, and a communal utility building. Zeller was considered a pioneer of a kinder generation of mental health care, using no window bars or other restraints in his design. In 1907, the name was changed to Peoria State Hospital.
  
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The sanitarium began expanding almost immediately. The Menninger family opened other operations, including Southard School for children, one of the first institutions for children with mental health disabilities. The family also began training psychiatric professionals, performing research, and publishing in the Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic. During the 1930s, Will and other Menninger staff formulated and refined their milieu therapy, a treatment program focusing on the whole individual and every staff member’s interaction with a patient.
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On the hospital's 25th anniversary in 1927, the population was 2,650 with a total of 13,510 patients having entered the facility. During this time, Dr. Zeller was widely respected for his focus on therapeutic efforts. Zeller crusaded for a better public understanding of the mentally ill including inviting newspaper reporters and community members to visit Peoria State. From 1943 until 1969, the hospital participated in a departmental affiliation program for psychiatric nursing, which provided instruction in psychiatric nursing to students from regional general hospital nursing schools.  [[Bartonville State Hospital|Click here for more...]]
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Karl became a popularly respected and well-known figure in psychiatry after publishing his first book in 1930 and writing a regular advice column in the Ladies’ Home Journal. Like many other Menninger staff, Will joined the armed forces during World War II; by the end of the war, he was a brigadier general and extremely influential in treating and caring for soldiers with psychiatric problems.  [[Menniger Clinic|Click here for more...]]
 
 
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Featured Article Of The Week

Bartonville State Hospital


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Construction on the Bartonville State Hospital began in 1885, and the main structure, an enormous building most closely resembling a medieval castle-was completed in 1887. The building was never used, apparently due to the structural damage caused when the abandoned mine shafts it was built over collapsed. The psychiatric hospital was rebuilt in 1902 under the direction of Dr. George Zeller and implemented a cottage system of 33 buildings, including patient and caretaker housing, a store, a power station, and a communal utility building. Zeller was considered a pioneer of a kinder generation of mental health care, using no window bars or other restraints in his design. In 1907, the name was changed to Peoria State Hospital.

On the hospital's 25th anniversary in 1927, the population was 2,650 with a total of 13,510 patients having entered the facility. During this time, Dr. Zeller was widely respected for his focus on therapeutic efforts. Zeller crusaded for a better public understanding of the mentally ill including inviting newspaper reporters and community members to visit Peoria State. From 1943 until 1969, the hospital participated in a departmental affiliation program for psychiatric nursing, which provided instruction in psychiatric nursing to students from regional general hospital nursing schools. Click here for more...

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