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1930. A leader in the treatment and prevention of mental illness, Karl Augustus Menninger, along with his family founded one of the world’s most renowned psychiatric clinics in his hometown of Topeka, Kansas. The distinguished Menninger, often called the dean of American psychiatry was also a best-selling author whose landmark books, The Human Mind and Man Against Himself, celebrated the need for individuals to have self-respect and self-understanding and introduced psychiatry to a vast audience.