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THE MASK OF SANITY

By HERVEY M. CLECKLEY, M.D.

Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology,

Medical College of Georgia,

Augusta, Georgia

An Attempt To Clarify Some Issues About the So-Called

Psychopathic Personality

Non teneas aurum totum quod splendet ut aurum.

Alanus de Insulis

THIRD EDITION

DEDICATION

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, perhaps, that extrasensory 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