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Hemingway's brain / Andrew Farah.

by Farah, Andrew.

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The University of South Carolina Press, 2017.

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 -- Mental health.

Authors, American -- Suicidal behavior -- History -- 20th century.

Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

Journalists -- United States -- Biography.

Forensic psychiatry -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies.

Suicide victims -- Biography.

Mentally ill -- Biography.

View an interview with the author on YouTube.

9781611177428 (hc.)

ix, 194 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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, Farah pieces together this alternative narrative of Hemingway's illness. 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 volume explains which current options might benefit a similar patient today. This full and accurate accounting of his psychiatric diagnosis explores 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. Andrew Farah is the chief of psychiatry at the High Point Division of the University of North Carolina Healthcare System"--Provided by publisher.

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