The Mask of Sanity

The Mask of Sanity

THE MASK OF SANITY

~An Attempt to Clarify Some Issues About the So-Called Psychopathic Personality

Non teneas aururn totum quod splendet ut aururn. ALANUS DE INSULIS

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.

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 that mute and death-eclipsing 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.

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