Book mask of sanity

By Hervey M.

When a driving mishap turns into a shocking discovery, Dr. Jeremy Balint, the 34 year old Chief of Cardiology and devoted family man becomes an aspiring killer with one particular "extermination" in mind, BUT Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Rate this book.

Book mask of sanity

The Mask of Sanity, by Hervey M. Cleckley, M. It was initially published in , and revised four times over the next 35 years. Cleckley, made the book available for non-profit educational use. You can download a PDF for free here:. About half of The Mask of Sanity describes case studies of individuals who were dragged into psychiatric hospitals by their confused and distraught families. Cleckley, who was a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Medical College of Georgia, relates these stories with a mix of old-fashioned propriety and understated, entertaining detail. Max had married multiple times. His second wife was proprietress of the local brothel, where he had a habit of disrupting business. Cleckley wrote:. With his new partner he tried his hand again at forgery on a somewhat larger scale than usual. He prospered for a while and, flushed with prosperity and bravado, brought his new bigamous partner home with him on a visit to the brothel where his legal wife was struggling to restore standards which had suffered during his presence. As well might be imagined, quarreling broke out at once between the two wives. Max, still in character, did nothing to pour oil on these sorely troubled waters. In fact, his every move seemed designed to whip up the already lively doings to a crescendo.

However, book mask of sanity, psychopaths or hdfilmer are not clinically insane. I wouldn't recommend it for recreational reading, however if you have an interest in the topic it is quite the seminal work and worthwhile to see where theories and practice came from. Columbine by Dave Cullen also has an outstanding discussion of psychopaths.

Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Rate this book. The Mask of Sanity. Hervey M. Cleckley, first published in , describing Cleckley's clinical interviews with patients in a locked institution.

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I'm glad I began to skim and picked up what I could of these. Perhaps the most enjoyable aspect of this book is in its latter portions, where Mr. Considered a revolutionary study of psychopathy upon its initial publication in , Hervey Cleckley's The Mask of Sanity: An Attempt to Clarify Some Issues about the So-Called Psychopathic Personality offers useful insight into the affliction almost eighty years later. Laura -- I am a believer in her answer to that caller and I am a believer in the truth of her praise of this book. The fact that many psychopaths in his experience came from middle- to upper-class families with no backgrounds of criminal activity or mental illness seemed to argue against strong environmental and genetic factors. Later two items were removed from the checklist in order to more clearly represent the structure of a two- factor analysis. Isn't that interesting? The distinction between the two has only recently been made by psychiatrists. Now enters Norman Navare and his lovely daughter, Delilah. ISBN X. Rate as 3 out of 5, 3 stars. He will commit theft, forgery, adultery, fraud, and other deeds for astonishingly small stakes and under much greater risks of being discovered than will the ordinary scoundrel. Jeremy Balint is a very successful cardiologist, a good father, husband, and son, until he finds out his wife is having an affair with a fellow doctor at the same hospital he works at

Hervey Milton Cleckley was an American psychiatrist and pioneer in the field of psychopathy.

The Lust to Kill. When a main character is a sociopath, I prefer the novel to be in first person. Sign In Register. He currently practices psychiatry in New York City. This is not an action packed mystery or slasher whodunit type book at all. But how well do we really know anyone? What I found most interesting, and what I wish the author had spent more time elaborating, is the recognition of psychopathic sexual sadists as extraordinarily dangerous people. Author books Opus Dei. Main article: History of psychopathy. It was assumed that if one encountered a sociopath that he would be easy to read. And his geographical and logistics details are top notch. Hare created the modern-day Psychopathy Checklist which lists 20 of these. It made no sense to me. Leo Robertson.