He advocated treating offenders like the mentally ill. His subsequent books include The Vital Balance, Man Against Himself and Love Against Hate. In 1981, Menninger was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter. In 1985, the Menninger School of Psychiatry was named for him. On October 6, 1988, less than two years before his death, Karl Menninger wrote a letter to Thomas Szasz, author of The Myth of Mental Illness.
Karl Menninger
Thomas Szasz