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|Body= During the middle of the 19th century, at about the time the Civil War was drawing to a close, there was a growing incidence of mental illness in Iowa. At that time, there was only one state facility for the mentally ill, located at Mt. Pleasant in the southeast corner of the state. In operation but a few years, it quickly became overcrowded. A bill passed by the Iowa Legislature on April 6, 1868, appropriated money to build a second hospital for the insane. It was to be located west of Independence. The new asylum became a reality when the doors opened, and patients were admitted on May 1, 1873. It was built for $845,000 and took ten years to complete. The walls of the main building are made up of stone taken from the quarries around Farley and Stone City, while the foundation is of prairie granite. The latter was a plus for the State of Iowa, as the contractor was not obligated to use material this durable. This area had a lot of prairie granite in the fields during the mid-19th century. There was a French influence here in the mansard roofs, lofty arched windows, decorative slating, bracketed eaves, domes, corner towers, and ornamental roof turrets. Due to circulation capabilities, the main building contributed to patients' physical health during those early days.
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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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The landscape artist, J.J. Weidenmann, was a professional of some renown, for he did the State Capitol grounds in Des Moines and some work on Central Park in New York City. He was employed here to furnish all the plans for improvement of the grounds, drainage, roads, drives and walks, grading, and lakes, and also a map for the guidance of the gardener in planting trees. This work, incidentally, was done largely by patients treated here at the time.  [[Independence State Hospital|Click here for more...]]
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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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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

Menniger Clinic


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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.

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.

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. Click here for more...

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