Clarence B. Farrar

Clarence B. Farrar (November 27, 1874 – June 3, 1970) was an influential psychiatrist, the first Director of the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital (succeeded in 1966 by the Clarke Institute), and editor of The American Journal of Psychiatry for 34 years.

Born in Cattaraugus, New York, Farrar studied at Allegheny College and Harvard before earning his M.D. from Johns Hopkins Medical School. Farrar studied under William Osler at Hopkins followed by postgraduate study with Emil Kraepelin, Franz Nissl, and Alois Alzheimer.

As a chief psychiatrist for the Canadian Army, Captain Farrar researched psychiatric cases of soldiers with shell shock and published his findings with Charles Kirk Clarke.

Farrar worked at various times as an assistant physician and director of laboratories at Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, associate in psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, assistant physician at Trenton State Hospital, lecturer in abnormal psychology at Princeton University, head of Homewood Sanitarium in Guelph, medical director of Toronto Psychiatric Hospital and the head of the department of psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Farrar retired as professor emeritus in 1947 from the University of Toronto.

Farrar's contributions to the field of psychiatry were recognized through honorary doctorates from McGill University and the University of Toronto, the Medal of Service of the Order of Canada from the Governor General of Canada, and the Distinguished Service Award of the Thomas W. Salmon Committee on Psychiatry and Mental Hygiene of the New York Academy of Medicine.

Farrar was a noted critic of the Emmanuel Movement.^[1] He was also a member of the Eugenics Society of Canada,^[2] and, believing that heredity was the primary cause of mental illness, supported some arguments regarding compulsory sterilization of "mental deficients".^[3]

References

1. ^ Caplan, Eric (2001). Mind Games: American Culture and the Birth of Psychotherapy (Medicine and Society). Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-22903-7. http://books.google.com/books?id=UvooUZxT9aEC&pg=PA132&lpg=PA132&dq=clarence+farrar&source=bl&ots=FK8ExQUJTv&sig=_pwAwZIyEhDt6INsGy92PWeHy8k&hl=en&ei=zDxQTe_lF86_gQfKrN3zDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAjgU#v=onepage&q=clarence%20farrar&f=false. 
2. ^ Moran, James; Wright, David W. (2006). Mental health and Canadian society: historical perspectives. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 0-7735-3139-4. http://books.google.com/books?id=tZ0XB2qe4XgC&pg=PA179&lpg=PA179&dq=clarence+farrar+eugenics&source=bl&ots=MQV5-ZJy2S&sig=a3A6_7yUaX6s9S_egwjpRNxMS8U&hl=en&ei=jj5QTbGCJ8PIgQeJg53hDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&sqi=2&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=clarence%20farrar%20eugenics&f=false. 
3. ^ Gerald Thomson (Fall 2002). ""Not an Attempt to Coddle Children": Dr. Charles Hegler Gundry and the Mental Hygiene Division of the Vancouver School Board, 1939-1969". Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’éducation 14 (2): 247–278. http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/edu_hse-rhe/article/view/1699/1799. 

• Braceland FJ (August 1970). "Clarence B. Farrar, S.M., A.B., M.D., D.Sc., L.L.D., F.R.C.P. (C)". Am J Psychiatry 127 (2): 223. PMID 4919639. http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=4919639. 
• Lowy FH (February 1975). "Editorial: Clarence B. Farrar 1874-1970 and the history of psychiatry in Canada". Can Psychiatr Assoc J 20 (1): 1–2. PMID 1091345. 
• Stokes A (September 1970). "Clarence B. Farrar 1874-1970". Am J Psychiatry 127 (3): 387–8. PMID 4917857. http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=4917857. 
• "CLARENCE B. FARRAR, MS., A.B. (Harv), M.D.(T.H.U.), D.Sc.(McGill), LL.D.(Tor), F.R.C.P.C." Can Med Assoc J. 1970 August 1; 103(3): 306–307. PMC PMC1930389
• "Clarence B. Farrar Library Acquisition", David Mason Books
• "Prof. C.B. Farrar and Canada’s First Psychiatric Residency Program", University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry
• Edward, Shorter (1996). TPH: History and memories of the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital, 1925-1966. Toronto: Wall & Emerson. ISBN 0-921332-45-9. 
  • Review of TPH: History and Memories of the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital, 1925–1966, Mary V. Seeman, Am J Psychiatry 157:1537-1538, September 2000

Persondata
Name	Farrar, Clarence
Alternative names	C.B. Farrar
Short description	Psychiatrist, editor
Date of birth	November 27, 1874
Place of birth	Cattaraugus, New York
Date of death	June 3, 1970
Place of death