Clarence B. Farrar was an influential psychiatrist, the first Director of the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital, and editor of The American Journal of Psychiatry for 34 years.
Education
Born in Cattaraugus, New York, Farrar studied at Allegheny College and Harvard before earning his Doctor of Medicine Farrar studied under William Osler at Hopkins followed by postgraduate study with Emil Kraepelin, Franz Nissl, and Alois Alzheimer.
Career
From Johns Hopkins Medical School. 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 retired as professor emeritus in 1947 from the University of Toronto.
Farrar was a noted critic of the Emmanuel Movement.
He also published a paper on anomalistic psychology.
Membership
He was also a member of the Eugenics Society of Canada, and, believing that heredity was the primary cause of mental illness, supported some arguments regarding compulsory sterilization of "mental deficients".