American Decades
Menninger, Karl 1893-1990
POPULARIZER AND PUBLICIZER OF PSYCHIATRY
The Human Mind.
In 1930 the American psychiatrist Karl Menninger published his best-seller, The Human Mind, a book that gave the psychopathology of everyday life and the workings of the mind a new meaning to many Americans. The psychiatrist in The Human Mind took the reader into his practice and let him see how the world looked when viewed through a psychiatrist's eyes. Menninger openly discussed the everyday problems of mental illness, and, in doing so, the reading population of the country developed new insights into both mental illness and the psychiatric specialty. Menninger's name appeared widely in newspapers and magazines as he also published articles and reached the public in the Nation, the New Republic, and the Ladies' Home Journal, In many minds Menninger's name and psychiatry became indivisible. Psychiatry had found a spokesman, and...
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1930's Medicine and Health
- Overview
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Topics in the News
- Birth Control
- The Blues Blue Cross And Blue Shield
- The Cost Of Being Sick
- The Dawn Of The Sulfa Drugs
- The Food, Drug, And Cosmetic Act Of 1938
- The "Good Sleep"—A Ne W Era In Surgery
- "The Great White Plague"—Tuberculosis Before The Age Of Antibiotics
- Health And The New Deal
- The March Of Dimes And The National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
- Maternal Mortality—Why Mothers Died
- The Nation'S Health
- The New Deal, Health Insurance, And The Ama
- Psychoanalysis In America And The Impact Of The European Intellectual Migration
- Sex, Disease, And The New Deal
- Specialization Versus General Practice
- Headline Makers
- People in the News
- Awards
- Deaths
- Publications
- Important Events in Medicine and Health, 1930–1939
