Menninger is a leading psychiatric center dedicated to treating individuals with mood, personality, anxiety and addictive disorders, teaching mental health professionals and advancing mental healthcare through research.

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Our Mission
Menninger is a world leader in psychiatric treatment, research and education.
Our Vision
Menninger will be the world leader in psychiatric treatment, research and education.
Values–our ethic

• Excellence–The best people doing their best work
• Teamwork–Accountable to each other to do our best
• Hope–Inspiring people to reach their potential
• Integrity–Doing the right thing
• Caring–Respect and compassion for self and others

Individuals with severe mental illness from across the USA and abroad have turned to The Menninger Clinic since 1925.

Founded in Topeka, Kansas, by Drs. C.F., Karl and Will Menninger, The Menninger Clinic represented the first group psychiatry practice. "We had a vision," Dr. C.F. said, "of a better kind of medicine and a better kind of world."

The three founders created a national psychiatric hospital with staff dedicated to helping people who were struggling with difficulties and disorders that interfered with quality daily living. They believed that persons with mental illness could be treated and helped at a time when custodial care or lifetime exile were the only alternatives.

The Clinic stood as a symbol of hope. The nervous and mental symptoms, emotional conflicts, the frustrations, and unhappiness complained of by the patients were given consideration equal to that given infections, tumors, and other physical ailments. Others around the world adopted and practiced many of Menninger’s innovations and approaches to the care of the mentally ill and to psychiatry.

Since that time, standing still has never been a trait among Menninger clinicians, researchers and educators.

Perhaps former Menninger Chief of Staff Richard Munich, MD, said it best when he suggested that while Menninger's 77-year legacy is marked with many accomplishments, its true potential remains ahead.

"I have long felt that once we have successfully passed the era of biological reductionism and extraordinary financial and regulatory constraints, The Menninger Clinic will be uniquely positioned to be at the forefront of a new alliance uniting brain, mind and social factors in the reduction of human suffering. It is very exciting to think that time is upon us."

"Our affiliation with Baylor College of Medicine and The Methodist Hospital ensures continuation of the Menninger mission to provide quality care, innovation through research, and training the mental health professionals of tomorrow," adds Ian Aitken, President and CEO.