The Mask of Sanity Cleckley Hervey M.
The Mask of Sanity Cleckley Hervey M. First published in 1941, "The Mask of Sanity: An Attempt to Clarify Some Issues About the So-Called Psychopathic Personality" by Hervey M. Cleckley based his…
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The Mask of Sanity Cleckley Hervey M.
First published in 1941, "The Mask of Sanity: An Attempt to Clarify Some Issues About the So-Called Psychopathic Personality" by Hervey M. Cleckley based his work on clinical interviews with patients in mental institutions and continued to edit and revise his seminal work throughout the years. Cleckley, an American psychiatrist, is considered to be the most important work on psychopathology of the twentieth-century.
They may appear engaging, intelligent, charming, and sincere but behind this fa ade of a normal, functioning person they are severely mentally disordered and chaotic. The title "The Mask of Sanity" refers to Cleckley's description of the psychopath as living behind a mask of normalcy, which makes the disorder very difficult to recognize and diagnosis. Cleckley was the first to recognize the psychopath's lack of genuine emotion that stems from a serious and uncontrolled