Andrew Farah

Dr. Andrew Farah is a native of Charleston, SC, where he attended Porter-Gaud School. He earned his bachelor's degree at Clemson University, and his MD at the Medical University of South Carolina, and then completed his residency in psychiatry at Wake Forest University. Dr. Farah was named "Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association" in 2015 for his teaching, research, and his original contributions to the field. He is widely regarded as an expert on postconcussion syndrome, the prevention of dementias, and the "homocysteine theory of depression." He has consulted to various industries well as on various forensic cases and legal matters over the past 19 years. He now serves as the Chief of Psychiatry at the High Point Division of the University of North Carolina Healthcare System. When asked by another Hemingway biographer why "Hemingway got worse, not better, after shock-therapy," Dr. Farah answered that patients who decline and do not improve as expected with ECT have some organic brain disease that was undiagnosed at the time. "What was Hemingway's organic brain disease?" The answer is the subject of Hemingway's Brain, which fully explains, for the first time the diagnoses that led to the suicide of America's greatest writer. Dr. Farah now reading: "Passion for Nothing: Kierkegaard's Apophatic Theology," Peter Kline Dr. Farah just read: "Black Laurel" Michele Poulos