The Psychiatrist and the Violence Commission
W. WALTER MENNINGER M.D.1
1 Staff Psychiatrist, the Menninger Foundation, Box 829, Topeka, Kans. 66601, and Director, Combined Service Section, Topeka State Hospital, Topeka, Kans.
The author describes some aspects of his experience as a member of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, particularly how he and psychiatry in general were regarded by his fellow commissioners, the kinds of anxieties prompted by his presence on the commission, and the roles he, as a psychiatrist, was called upon to play.
