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The '''Greater Kansas City and Topeka Psychoanalytic Center and Institute''', also known as the '''Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Center and Institute''' ('''GKCPI'''), is a [[Psychoanalytic institutes and societies in the United States|psychoanalytic center]] in [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]], [[Missouri]], that comprises several interrelated organizations. Currently these are the '''Kansas City Psychoanalytic Foundation''', the '''Greater Kansas City and Topeka Psychoanalytic Center''' ('''GKCTPC'''), and the '''Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute''' ('''GKCPI'''), also known as the Foundation, the center, and the institute.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gkcpsa.org/ |title=Home |website=gkcpsa.org}}</ref> 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.<ref>"Abstract", Records of the Topeka Psychoanalytic Society, held at the Kansas Historical Society https://www.kshs.org/index.php?url=archives/226163</ref> The Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute opened in 1996.
== Topeka Psychoanalytic Society ==
The Menninger Clinic was established by [[Charles Frederick Menninger|Charles Menninger]] and his sons [[Karl Menninger|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 Institute|Chicago Psychoanalytic Society]], then the only midwestern organization recognized by the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA). 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.<ref>"Abstract", Records of the Topeka Psychoanalytic Society, held at the Kansas Historical Society https://www.kshs.org/index.php?url=archives/226163</ref>
By the early 1940s, the Topeka  Institute for Psychoanalysis was founded as part of the Menninger Clinic.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sigourneyaward.org/work/2019/4/27/the-menninger-clinic-topeka-institute-for-psychoanalysis-1998 |title=The Menninger Clinic – Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis, 1998 |website=sigourneyaward.org |date=2019-04-27}}</ref> 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 States after the [[Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute|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 [[San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society and Institute|California Psychoanalytic Society]] and the psychoanalytic society of Oklahoma, later the [http://osps.info/ Oklahoma Society for Psychoanalytic Studies] were established under their sponsorship.<ref>"San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society and Institute." International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis. . Encyclopedia.com. 4 Sep. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.</ref>
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.<ref>Jon G. Allen, (2015) “Menninger Clinic,” The Encyclopedia of Clinical Psychology, Robin L. Cautin & Scott O. Lilienfeld, eds. pp 1786-1788. New York: Wiley-Blackwell. {{ISBN|9780470671276}}</ref>
==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:
*[[Karl Menninger]]
*[[Will Menninger]]
*[[Gardner Murphy]] (8 July 1895 – 18 March 1979), American psychologist specialising in social and personality psychology and [[parapsychology]].
*[[David Rapaport]] (30 September 1911, Budapest, Austria-Hungary – 14 December 1960, Stockbridge, Mass.), Hungarian-American psychologist and psychoanalyst, former research director at the Menninger Clinic and later staff at [[Austen Riggs]] in Massachusetts.
*[[Otto F. Kernberg]], Austrian-American psychoanalyst and psychiatrist
*[[Ernst Simmel]] (4 April 1882,  Breslau – 11 November 1947, Los Angeles), Germ (January 28, 1921 – December 21, 2014) an American neurologist and psychoanalyst.
*Ernst Ticho (1915 – 1996), Austrian-American psychoanalyst and psychiatrist.
*[[Gertrude Ticho]] (1920 – 2004), Austrian-American psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. From 1969 to 1974, she served as director of the Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Psychoanalytikerinnen in Österreich|url=https://www.psychoanalytikerinnen.de/oesterreich_biografien.html#Ticho|access-date=2021-05-15|website=www.psychoanalytikerinnen.de}}</ref>
*[[Robert S. Wallerstein]], (28 January 1921 – 21 December 2014), German-American psychoanalyst, later president of the [[International Psychoanalytic Association]]
==See also==
*[[American Psychoanalytic Association]]
*[[International Psychoanalytic Association]]
*[[Menninger Clinic]]
*[[List of schools of psychoanalysis]]
*[[Psychoanalytic institutes and societies in the United States]]
== References ==
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==External links==
*Official website: [https://www.gkcpsa.org Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Center and Institute]
*Records of the Topeka Psychoanalytic Society [https://www.kshs.org/index.php?url=archives/226163]
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