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Hervey Cleckley (1941) wrote in The Mask of Insanity a plea for the public to try and understand a range of antisocial personality disorders that he referred to as psychotic “for want of a better word.” The definition of various “high order” psychotic disorders continues today, many giving credit to Cleckley for his original use of the word psychotic in a recognized and accepted treatise (Lively, 1998). With the categorization of high order psychotic behaviour, it would behoove society to take note of Cleckley’s arguments. However, society continues to ignore his basic tenets that psychotic behavior is not clinically treatable. 4 References. jvCleckl.rtf
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referred to as psychotic "for want of a better word." The definition of various "high order" psychotic disorders continues today, many giving credit to Cleckley for his original use of
the word psychotic in a recognized and accepted treatise (Lively, 1998). With the categorization of high order psychotic behaviour, it would behoove society to take note of Cleckleys arguments. However,
society continues to ignore his basic tenets that psychotic behavior is not clinically treatable. Forensic Psychological Research (2004) states that Hervey Cleckley, MD,
was born in Augusta, Georgia in 1903. Little is known of his early life except that he left to attend a military academy, the Academy of Richland County, at the
age of thirteen and upon graduation, Cleckley left for Oxford University where he became a Rhodes Scholar. In 1937, after Cleckley graduated with a doctorate in psychiatry from the University
of Georgia Medical School, he became professor of psychiatry and neurology at the Medical College of Georgia concurrently holding the positions as chief of psychiatry and neurology at University Hospital.
In 1941, Cleckley published The Mask of Sanity: An Attempt to Clarify Some Issues About the So-Called Psychopathic Personality, which made him famous for several reasons, one of which was
that the theory Cleckley laid out in 1941 became the subject of his 1957 books, The Three Faces of Eve and The Caricature of Love; A Discussion of Social, Psychiatric,
and Literary Manifestations of Pathologic Sexuality. The latter two reflect Cleckleys empathy for his patients and he received many awards for his writing.
The Mask of Insanity is well known for the positing the theory that certain repetitive human behavioral outcomes were psychopathic in nature. This went against the thinking of the
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