Greater Kansas City and Topeka Psychoanalytic Center and Institute
The Greater Kansas City and Topeka Psychoanalytic Center and Institute, also known as the GreaterKansas City Psychoanalytic Center and Institute, is a psychoanalytic center in Kansas City, Missouri, that comprises several interrelated organizations. Currently these are the Kansas City Psychoanalytic Foundation, the Greater Kansas City and Topeka Psychoanalytic Center , and the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute , also known as the Foundation, the Center, and the Institute. In the early 2000s, the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute merged with the older Topeka Psychoanalytic Society. The Psychoanalytic Study Group of Kansas City was incorporated in 1965. During the 1990s it changed its name to the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Society. The Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute opened in 1996.
Topeka Psychoanalytic Society
The Menninger Clinic was established by Charles Menninger and his sons Karl and Will Menninger as a mental health treatment center in Topeka, with an early focus on psychoanalytic treatments. By 1936, a Psychoanalytic Study Group of Topeka was established at the clinic, under the sponsorship of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society, then the only midwestern organization recognized by the American Psychoanalytic Association. Chicago had the second-oldest psychoanalytic institute in the United States and was the only midwestern organization recognized by the American Psychoanalytic Association at that time. By the early 1940s, the Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis was founded as part of the Menninger Clinic. During the same time period, the Topeka Psychoanalytic Society, closely associated with the clinic, was established. The Society was significant in the 1940s Topeka society as the oldest psychoanalytic society in the western United Stats after the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. The Topeka Psychoanalytic Society consequently was given jurisdiction under the American Psychoanalytic Association over all psychoanalytic institutes in the United States west of Kansas; among others, the California Psychoanalytic Society and the psychoanalytic society of Oklahoma, later the were established under their sponsorship. The Menninger Clinic relocated to Houston, Texas, between 2001 and 2003, and members of the Topeka Psychoanalytic Society who did not relocate with it, became affiliated with the psychoanalytic organizations in Kansas City, about 60 miles east of Topeka.
Associated Figures
Persons who have been associated with the Greater Kansas City and Topeka Psychoanalytic Center and Institute or its predecessor organizations include the following:
