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THE MASK OF SANITY
~An Attempt to Clarify Some Issues About the So-Called Psychopathic Personality. Hervey Cleckley, M.D.

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.

THE FIRST EDITION of this book was based primarily on experience with
adult male psychopaths hospitalized in a closed institution. Though a great many other psychopaths had come to my attention, most of the patients who were observed over years and from whom emerged the basic concepts presented in 1941 were from this group. During the next decade a much more diverse group became available. Female patients, adolescents, people who had never been admitted to a psychiatric hospital, all in large numbers, became available for study and afforded an opportunity to observe the disorder in a very wide range of variety and of degree.