The mask of sanity
by Hervey M. Cleckley · first published 1941
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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
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One might insightfully argue the whole point of the psychopath is precisely that it doesn't show. I recommend Cleckley, The Mask of Sanity, [1] originally 1941 but prefer his 1988 fifth edition especially for its rather disconsolate preface. [1] https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/personality/psychopathy/194... - despite the filename, this…
on “Molotov Cocktail Is Hurled at Home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman” ↗Not really. It is ill defined in DSM but if you read Harvey Cleckley "the Mask of Sanity" there is a clear coherent syndrome. Basically it is amoral impulse control disorder. It shows up on fMRI so it is probably more real than half the things in DSM.
on “Psychopathic traits linked to difficulty distinguishing smells” ↗…wrong in small or large is the problem. And it's a problem for both passionate and dispassionate people. One of the earlier researchers on psychopaths was Hervey M. Cleckley. In his book on the topic The Mask of Sanity one of his vignettes of, I believe, "incomplete manifestation of psychopathology" was of a psychologist who gave public lectures on psychopaths, without apparently recognizing that he was almost one of…
on “Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days” ↗