He lived from to and was a brilliant scientist who made detailed clinical and medical observations of several psychopaths. His main book, The Mask of Sanity , describes sixteen psychopaths who he counseled or who were interned in the centers where he practiced psychiatry throughout his career. But have you ever wondered exactly what psychopathy is?
How can we define it? This psychiatrist revolutionized the research in his field and went especially deep into the whole area of psychopathy.
Hervey Cleckley made all his observations from his own patients. He proposed the hypothesis that psychopaths suffer from a basic deficiency in their emotions, insight, and awareness. As a result, this prevents them from experiencing life at the same level as other people. Thus, these people experience certain difficulties in accepting and integrating into the social, ethical, legal, and moral norms of a society.
Cleckley collected the main characteristics of a psychopath and embodied them into a total of sixteen basic criteria. He classified them into three groups:. Based on these previously stated starting points, Hervey Cleckley developed his research on psychopathy , expanding the field and defining, to a greater extent, its main characteristics.
Cleckley described a psychopath as a charismatic, sincere, and pleasant individual for most of the time. They also usually give the impression of being a person with superior intelligence, perfect reasoning, and many impressive skills. They understand and discuss the social norms with total logic. In addition to that, they completely understand the relationship between actions and the resulting consequences.
This author also postulated that, in situations where people normally feel nervous, tense, or stressed, psychopaths remain calm and without anxious symptomatology. In most cases researched by this author, psychopathy was, surprisingly, a protective factor against suicidal ideas or actual suicide attempts.
Despite the chaotic and self-destructive life that these individuals led, the only attempts to end their lives were nothing more than empty ones. He died shortly after in , aged Contact him at or ngarret1 augusta. Jagwire is your source for news and stories from Augusta University. Daily updates highlight the many ways students, faculty, staff, researchers and clinicians "bring their A games" in classrooms and clinics on four campuses in Augusta and locations across the state of Georgia.
Augusta University. Search Search. Campus News. Nick Garrett 3 min read September 27, Both events are free and open to the public. Who was Hervey Cleckley? Cleckley, pictured here running track for Georgia, was an accomplished athlete and scholar.
Information provided courtesy of the Hervey M. Written by. Related articles. Nov The 5 th Edition is still in print. This book has been used in medical schools throughout the world for more than seventy years. In , Cleckley and his colleague, Dr.
This book examined the life of Chris Sizemore; it was the first book to fully validate the multiple personality. The Three Faces of Eve was a New York Times best seller, sold more than three million copies and was translated into fourteen foreign languages. As all of the authors who have been associated with the Medical College of Georgia , Cleckley is the most successful.
In , the movie, The Three Faces of Eve was released. On many occasions Cleckley was asked to testify at important trials. An example was the trial of Ted Bundy who murdered more than thirty people.
Cleckley testified that Bundy was a classic psychopath but was not criminally insane. Cleckley taught for many years at the Medical College of Georgia sharing his wisdom with thousands of future doctors, nurses and other medical professionals.
He was a mentor to many throughout the world. Today, the most prominent person in the study and analysis of the psychopathic personality is Dr. Robert Hare of the University of British Columbia. Hare acknowledges that much of his research and writing is based on the insights he gained from Dr. Perry M.
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