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PRP was built not just around, but also out of, the usual clinical operations of The Menninger Foundation. We began with the usual psychiatric case study routinely carried out with individuals who came or were sent to The Menninger Foundation for evaluation and possible treatment recommendation. As has been indicated, we (Robbins and myself) were able, with the assistance and knowledge of only one clerk in the medical record room, to obtain the complete case record write-ups of those prospective patients who had been evaluated, had been recommended for intensive analytic psychotherapy at The Menninger Foundation, had accepted the recommendations, and had been placed on waiting lists for psychoanalysis or psychotherapy; we were then able to use the data of this psychiatric case study (called by us “Form A”) as the very adequate basis for construction of the PRP's Initial Study of that individual.
The usual psychiatric case study was composed as follows: The prospective patient came to Topeka accompanied by a significant relative—where possible, the spouse; otherwise a parent, an adult child, or some other involved and responsible individual. Records and letters were brought along from the referring sources.