Karl A. Menninger Quotes


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.


Citations

Menninger, Karl. Quoted in The Reader's Digest, vol. 73, The Reader's Digest Association, 1958, p. 145.

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Karl A. Menninger
Karl A. Menninger
  • Born: July 22, 1893
  • Died: July 18, 1990
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Psychiatrist

Karl Augustus Menninger was an American psychiatrist and a member of the Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation and the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas.