The mask of sanity : an attempt to clarify some issues about the so-called psychopathic personality

THE MASK OF SANITY An Attempt to Clarify Some Issues About the So-Called Psychopathic Personality Hervey Cleckley, M.D. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Ga.; author of The Caricature of Love and of The Three Faces of Eve (with Corbett H. Thigpen) Fifth Edition: private printing for non-profit educational use EMILY S. CLECKLEY Augusta, Georgia-1988 Fifth Edition Copyright 1988 Emily S. Cleckley Previous edition copyrighted 1941, 1950, 1955, 1964, 1976 by the C.V. Mosby Co. Cleckley, Hervey Milton, 1903-1984 The Mask of Sanity ISBN 0-9621519-0-4 Scanned facsimile produced for non-profit educational use The Mask of Sanity......Page 1 Preface to Fifth Edition......Page 5 Preface to First Edition......Page 9 Table of Contents......Page 11 Section One - An Outline of the Problem......Page 15 1 Sanity-a Protean Concept......Page 17 2 Traditions That Obscure Our Subject......Page 24 3 Not as Single Spies But in Battalions,......Page 31 4 Method of Presentation......Page 34 Part I -- The Disorder in Full Clinical Manifestations......Page 41 5 Max......Page 43 6 Roberta......Page 60 7 Arnold,......Page 69 8 Tom......Page 78 9 George......Page 84 10 Pierre......Page 91 11 Frank......Page 107 12 Anna......Page 116 13 Jack......Page 135 14 Chester......Page 141 15 Walter......Page 150 16 Joe......Page 160 17 Milt......Page 173 18 Gregory......Page 181 19 Stanley......Page 188 20 Degrees of Disguise in Essential Pathology......Page 202 21 The Psychopath as Businessman......Page 207 22 The Psychopath as Man of the World......Page 210 23 The Psychopath as Gentleman......Page 213 24 The Psychopath as Scientist......Page 217 25 The Psychopath as Physician......Page 219 26 The Psychopath as Psychiatrist......Page 222 27 Conceptual confusions which cloud the subject......Page 239 28 Clarifying the approach......Page 251 29 Purpose of This Step......Page 258 30 The Psychotic......Page 259 31 Deviations Recognized as Similar to the Psychoses But Regarded as Incomplete or Less Severe Reactions......Page 262 32 The Psychoneurotic......Page 270 33 The Mental Defective......Page 273 34 The Ordinary Criminal......Page 275 35 Other Character and Behavior Disorders, Including Delinquency......Page 281 36 A Case Showing Circumscribed Behavior Disorder......Page 286 37 Specific Homosexuality and Other Consistent Sexual Deviations......Page 300 38 The Erratic Man of Genius......Page 307 39 The Injudicious Hedonist and Some Other Drinkers......Page 320 40 The Clinical Alcoholic......Page 326 42 Fictional Characters of Psychiatric Interest......Page 330 43 The Psychopath in History......Page 340 44 Synopsis and Orientation......Page 351 45 Superficial Charm and Good "Intelligence,"......Page 352 47 Absence of "Nervousness" or Psychoneurotic Manifestations......Page 353 48 Unreliability......Page 354 49. Untruthfulness and Insincerity......Page 355 51 Inadequately Motivated Antisocial Behavior......Page 357 52 Poor Judgment and Failure to Learn by Experience......Page 359 53 Pathologic Egocentricity and Incapacity for Love......Page 360 54 General Poverty in Major Affective Reactions......Page 362 55 Specific Loss of Insight......Page 364 56 Unresponsiveness in General Interpersonal Relations......Page 368 57 Fantastic and Uninviting Behavior With Drink and Sometimes Without......Page 369 58 Suicide Rarely Carried Out......Page 372 59. Sex Life Impersonal, Trivial, and Poorly Integrated......Page 373 60 Failure to Follow Any Life Plan......Page 378 61 A Basic Hypothesis......Page 381 62 The Concept of Masked Personality Disorder or Defect......Page 390 63 Further Consideration of the Hypothesis......Page 402 64 Aspects of Regression......Page 411 65 Surmise and Evidence......Page 417 66 Illness and Misconduct......Page 430 67 Legal Competency and Criminal Responsibility......Page 434 68 Treatment or Control......Page 447 Appendix......Page 461 Bibliography......Page 467 Index......Page 475 LinkToy : )~......Page 0