- Date:
- 1960
- Summary:
- Dr. William Menninger, the president of the Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas, has played an active part in the educational phase of psychiatry for many years. He received his M.D. from the Cornell Medical School in 1924, and he did post-graduate work in psychiatry at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington in 1927. Dr. Menninger has been advisor to several government committees, has received honorary degrees, has been officer and member of many well-known medical societies and has published numerous articles. Dr. Menninger here explains how he was influenced by his father’s interest in psychosomatic medicine. He notes that he first planned to be a medical missionary. He describes his studies of men under stress in wartime and relates that men released from military service for psychiatric reasons would make personnel for 117 divisions. He is interviewed by Fahey Flynn, Columbia Broadcasting System newsman.