CHAPTER 38. THE CLINICAL ALCOHOLIC
CHAPTER 40. FICTIONAL CHARACTERS OF PSYCHIATRIC INTEREST
CHAPTER 41. SYNOPSIS AND ORIENTATION
CHAPTER 42. 1. SUPERFICIAL CHARM AND GOOD “INTELLIGENCE”
CHAPTER 43. 2. ABSENCE OF DELUSIONS AND OTHER SIGNS OF IRRATIONAL THINKING
CHAPTER 44. 3. ABSENCE OF “NERVOUSNESS” OR PSYCHONEUROTIC MANIFESTATIONS
CHAPTER 46. 5. UNTRUTHFULNESS AND INSINCERITY
CHAPTER 47. 6. LACK OF REMORSE OR SHAME
CHAPTER 48. 7. INADEQUATELY MOTIVATED ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
CHAPTER 49. 8. POOR JUDGMENT AND FAILURE TO LEARN BY EXPERIENCE
CHAPTER 50. 9. PATHOLOGIC EGOCENTRICITY AND INCAPACITY FOR LOVE
CHAPTER 51. 10. GENERAL POVERTY IN MAJOR AFFECTIVE REACTIONS
CHAPTER 52. 11. SPECIFIC LOSS OF INSIGHT
CHAPTER 53. 12. UNRESPONSIVENESS IN GENERAL INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS
CHAPTER 54. 13 FANTASTIC AND UNINVITING BEHAVIOR WITH DRINK AND SOMETIMES WITHOUT
CHAPTER 55. 14. SUICIDE RARELY CARRIED OUT
CHAPTER 56. 15. SEX LIFE IMPERSONAL, TRIVIAL, AND POORLY INTEGRATED
CHAPTER 57. 16. FAILURE TO FOLLOW ANY LIFE PLAN
Section 4. An Attempt at Interpretation
Part 1. What Is Wrong With These Patients?
CHAPTER 58. A BASIC HYPOTHESIS
CHAPTER 59. THE CONCEPT OF MASKED PERSONALITY DISORDER
CHAPTER 60. HYPOTHESIS APPLIED TO THE MATERIAL
CHAPTER 61. THE FACTOR OF REGRESSION
Part 2. Etiological Considerations
CHAPTER 62. INTERPERSONAL INFLUENCES
CHAPTER 64. SURMISE AND EVIDENCE
CHAPTER 65. ILLNESS AND MISCONDUCT
CHAPTER 66. LEGAL COMPETENCY AND CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY
CHAPTER 67. A PLEA FOR MORE THAN ABSENT-TREATMENT
CHAPTER 68. A GLIMPSE OF THE PROMISED LAND
THE MASK OF SANITY
By HERVEY M. CLECKLEY, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology,
Medical College of Georgia,
Augusta, Georgia
An Attempt To Clarify Some Issues About the So-Called
Psychopathic Personality
Non teneas aurum totum quod splendet ut aurum.
Alanus de Insulis
THIRD EDITION
DEDICATION
To L. M. C.
From chaos shaped, the Bios grows. In bone
And viscus broods the Id. And who can say
Whence Eros comes? Or chart his troubled way?
Nor bearded sage, nor science, yet has shown
How truth or love, when met, is straightly known;
Some phrases singing in our dust today
Have taunted logic through man’s Odyssey:
Yet, strangely, man sometimes will find his own.
And even man has felt the arcane flow
Whence brims unchanged the very Attic wine,
Where lives, perhaps, that extrasensory glow
That held the Lacedaemonian battle line:
And this, I think, may make what man is choose
The doom of joy he knows he can but lose