[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 1 (Wednesday, January 23, 2002)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E10]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      HONORING CLANCY D. McKENZIE, M.D. FOR THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF 
   GROUNDBREAKING RESEARCH, MEDICAL SERVICE AND HUMANITARIAN EFFORTS

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                            HON. CURT WELDON

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, January 23, 2002

  Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to honor 
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Professor Clancy D. McKenzie, M.D., 
Protege of Temple University's late Dr. O. Spurgeon English, and 
Recipient of Temple University's Nelson and Winnie Mandella 
Humanitarian Award. Dr. McKenzie has worked daily to improve the 
treatment of mental health patients and his trailblazing techniques, 
particularly in the area of schizophrenia, have awed the medical 
community over the years. His findings represent one of the greatest 
breakthroughs in that field of medicine and allows for the prevention 
of this disease.
  Dr. McKenzie is an Alumnus of the University of Michigan, University 
of Vienna, University of Michigan Medical School, Menninger School of 
Psychiatry, Philadelphia Psychiatric Center, Philadelphia 
Psychoanalytic Institute, and Capital University of Integrative 
Medicine, Washington, D.C. Under the careful tutelage of Dr. O. 
Spurgeon English for thirty years, Dr. McKenzie worked creatively and 
identified a new cause and mechanism for mental illness, the origin of 
which has been confirmed with data on 9,000 persons with schizophrenia, 
and many more with depression.
  Dr. O. Spurgeon English credited Dr. McKenzie with the discovery of a 
traumatic origin for mental illness and wrote that his findings 
represented a new unification theory of mental illness. Professor Lance 
S. Wright, a noted scholar, colleague and friend for thirty-five years, 
hailed the findings as the most significant in the field of psychiatry 
in the second half of the 20th Century.
  Dr. Clancy McKenzie, under the careful tutelage of Dr. O. Spurgeon 
English has made significant advances in the understanding of mental 
illness, and most importantly its prevention. His efforts should 
benefit future generations worldwide, through the understanding and 
prevention of mental disease.
  Mr. Speaker, Dr. Clancy D. McKenzie is truly a contemporary pioneer 
in the field of mental health who has gone beyond the current thinking 
concerning the subject of schizophrenia. I congratulate him on his life 
of service to humanity which have made it possible to provide those 
suffering from such ailments to the promise of a whole life.

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