Menninger Foundation

[10] The Menninger School of Psychiatry and the local Veterans Administration Hospital represented the center of a psychiatric education revolution.

Dr. Otto Fleischmann, head of the psychoanalytic institute from 1956 to 1963, was doing psychotherapy behind a one-way vision screen, in full view of all the students.

[2] Dr. Will Menninger made a major contribution to the field of psychiatry when he developed a system of hospital treatment known as milieu therapy.

Dr. Menninger served as Chief of the Army Medical Corps' Psychiatric Division during World War II.

The Menninger Foundation gained a reputation for intensive, individualized treatment, particularly for patients with complex or long-standing symptoms.

Numerous independent organizations recognized the Menninger Foundation as a world leader in psychiatric and behavioral health treatment.

It has organized efforts around the construct of mentalizing, a concept integrating research activities related to attachment, theory of mind, internal representations, and neuroscience.

In the 1960s the Menninger Clinic studied Swami Rama, a noted yogi, specifically investigating his ability to exercise voluntary control of bodily processes (such as heartbeat) which are normally considered non-voluntary (autonomous) as well as Yoga Nidra.

It was part of Gardner Murphy's research program into creativity and the paranormal, funded by Ittleson Family Foundation.