Research Catalog

Title

Hemingway's brain / Andrew Farah.

Author

Farah, Andrew

Publication

Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2017]

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Details

Description

ix, 194 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

"Hemingway's Brain is an innovative biography and the first forensic psychiatric examination of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway. After committing seventeen years to researching Hemingway's life and medical history, Andrew Farah, a forensic psychiatrist, has concluded that the writer's diagnoses were incorrect. Contrary to the commonly accepted diagnoses of bipolar disorder and alcoholism, Farah provides a comprehensive explanation of the medical conditions that led to Hemingway's suicide. Hemingway received state-of-the-art psychiatric treatment at one of the nation's finest medical institutes, but according to Farah it was for the wrong illness. Hemingway's death was not the result of medical mismanagement, but medical misunderstanding. Farah argues that despite popular mythology Hemingway was not manic-depressive and his alcohol abuse and characteristic narcissism were simply pieces of a much larger puzzle. Through a thorough examination of biographies, letters, memoirs of friends and family, and even Hemingway's FBI file, combined with recent insights on the effects of trauma on the brain, Farahpieces together this compelling, alternative narrative of Hemingway's illness, one that has been missing from the scholarship for too long. Though Hemingway's life has been researched extensively and many biographies written, those authors relied on the original diagnoses and turned to psychoanalysis and conjecture regarding Hemingway's mental state. Through his research Farah has sought to understand why Hemingway's decline accelerated after two courses of electroconvulsive therapy and in this olume explains which current options might benefit a similar patient today. Hemingway's Brain provides a full and accurate accounting of this psychiatric diagnosis by exploring the genetic influences, traumatic brain injuries, and neurological and psychological forces that resulted in what many have described as his tortured final years. It aims to eliminate the confusion and define for all future scholarship the specifics of the mental illnesses that shaped legendary literary works and destroyed the life of a master."--

Subjects

• Authors, American
• Forensic psychiatry
• Authors, American > 20th century > Biography
• Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961
• Case studies
• Biography
• 1900-1999
• Forensic psychiatry > Case studies
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary
• PSYCHOLOGY > Forensic Psychology

Genre/Form

• Biography.
• Case studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 17-6826

ISBN

• 9781611177428
• 1611177421

LCCN

2016054293

OCLC

960838209

Author

Farah, Andrew, author.

Title

Hemingway's brain / Andrew Farah.

Publisher

Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Other Form:

Online version: Farah, Andrew. Hemingway's brain. Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2017] 9781611177435

Research Call Number

JFE 17-6826