Karl A. Menninger
Karl A. Menninger
Karl Augustus Menningerwas an American psychiatrist and a member of the Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation and the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth22 July 1893
CountryUnited States of America
Karl A. Menninger quotes about
life track house
Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.
ignorance thinking average
The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal.
love-you taken love-is
Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken....
inspirational friendship music
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
love family happiness
What's done to children, they will do to society.
struggle fighting swim
When a trout rising to a fly gets hoooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freeely, he begins with a fight which results in struggles and splashes and sometimes an escape. Often, of course, the situation is too tough for him. In the same way the human being struggles with his environment and with the hooks that catch him. Sometimes he masters his difficulties; sometimes they are too much for him. His struggles are all that the world sees and it naturally misunderstands them. It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.
love happy-valentines-day helping-others
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.