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THE MASK OF SANITY

Section 2: The Material

Part 1: The disorder in full clinical manifestations

11. Frank

 

 

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11. Frank

The following letter was received by an influential senator in Washington and

referred by him to the hospital.

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Dear Sir:

It is with regret that I find it necessary to seek consideration from higher authority

but I have been confined in the Veterans Administration Hospital at for two years.

During my period of incarceration here I have tried in every available way to

cooperate with the officials, but it seems an impossibility to get any consideration from

them toward gaining my freedom.

I was placed here on the recommendation of my sister because she thought I was a

drug addict, and she has written some pretty nasty things against me to the officials

here.

I can prove to the satisfaction of all concerned that I am not a confirmed drug

addict or habitual user of any form of drug sufficiently to warrant continuous

confinement. I am not a criminal, nor had I the slightest minor charge of any

description against me at the time I came here. The Staff here has rated me less than

10 percent disabled and discontinued all government compensation; therefore, I

believe you will agree with me that any man with a less than 10 percent disability could

not possess a physical or mental disorder sufficient to prevent his having his freedom

and making his own livelihood.

I am not even allowed parole privileges of the grounds as a great many of the

patients here are. Some are continually violating institutional rules and still retain their

parole privileges undisciplined.

I have two children, who need my support and as long as I am kept incarcerated I

can't assist them in any way for I have no means other than my labor to support them.

I hereby humbly request you to intercede in my behalf and demand these officials

here to grant my release in order that I may be able to support my children to the best

of my ability as is every man's duty.

There are quite a few men in these institutions that are nothing short of

impositions on the government and taxpayers of the United States. They, the same as

myself, are perfectly capable mentally and physically to support themselves and should

be forced to do so.

I have begged for parole, trial visit, or any other means to prove myself selfsustaining,

but the authorities here seem to take my plea as a joke and make a lot of

promises that they have no intention of putting into action.

I will gladly submit to any physical or mental examination you may deem necessary

to assist you in obtaining my release from this place. I pray that you will give my

earnest request your immediate consideration.

Please be assured that I hold no malice toward any of the officials here or

elsewhere but my only objective in writing you is to gain my freedom and support my

children.

Please let me hear from you personally,

Yours very respectfully,

Frank ______

THE MATERIAL 95

The writer of this letter has behind him a formidable record of misadventure.

Detailed knowledge of Frank's early life is not available beyond the following

facts. The son of a rustic blacksmith, he was raised in a small hamlet near the

mountains of north Georgia. So far as can be learned, no members of his family

suffered from nervous or mental disease or made themselves objectionable in the

community. He completed the fifth grade in school, where he was considered by no

means a dull boy, though often truant. Many of the hours he was supposed to have

spent in school or working at some necessary chore for his family he is reported to have

idled away in loitering about a local millpond drowning goats and doing other senseless

or uninviting deeds of mischief.

Before the United States entered World War I, Frank had forged his father's

name to a false statement about his age and enlisted in the National Guard. He was

given vocational training by the government after his discharge from the army. He was

tried at several courses but made no serious effort to complete any of them. In his

community he soon made himself a problem, sometimes drinking to excess, often

behaving in a rowdy and threatening manner, contracting to buy small businesses, filling

stations, farms, but never living up to his agreements.

Local ex-service men, believing that he took morphine and that treatment might

help his maladjustment (commonly referred to as "nervousness"), had him sent to a

psychiatric hospital. He remained for a month, then returned to continue in his old

ways.

Now began a series of hospitalizations which extends to the present time. He

would be sent first to one place, then to another. He has been treated in state hospitals,

in federal hospitals, and in private institutions at the expense of the government. All

told, he has been admitted no less than nineteen times to strictly mental hospitals

maintained for the purpose of treating psychotic people. Sometimes he remained only

three or four weeks and sometimes six or even eighteen months. Over the years his

periods of hospitalization have grown slightly longer and his intervals outside shorter.

He has never, during the past fifteen years, been free longer than a few months. While

not under the care of psychiatrists he has received considerable attention from the

police. His jail sentences number seven at the present reading, including a term of nine

months in the Leavenworth Penitentiary (where he was sent for forging a prescription

for morphine) but not counting a score or more of overnight or weekend stops in police

barracks.

Despite these preoccupations Frank has found time to marry and have four

children and to become ordained as a minister in a small religious sect noted for

vigorous evangelical fervor. His marital relations have been most

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unsatisfactory during the interludes when he was free to be with the family. His wife

reports that he curses her and fights with her, and it is well established that he seizes any

money that is available, hires automobiles, and drives aimlessly about the countryside,

often drinking to excess and, according to some reports, occasionally taking morphine.

At times he has seemed proud of his ecclesiastical title, referring to himself as a

pastor and assuming unctuous and haughty airs. He has not, however, occupied himself

with whatever ministerial duties he was supposed to fulfill any more consistently than

with other work.

His friends, especially those interested in the American Legion and other service

organizations, have obtained many positions for him. He is shrewd, neat in appearance,

and an excellent talker. He makes a good impression at first but always shirks his

responsibility to such an extent that it is impossible to retain him.

A few years ago he was given a place at a filling station and seemed, surprisingly,

to show considerable interest in his work for several days. It was then discovered that

he had been drawing off all the gasoline he could and taking it to a nearby town where

he sold it and bought morphine from dope peddlers, most of which he, in turn, sold at a

tremendous profit to local addicts.

He has been consistently arrogant and aggressive toward his neighbors and

acquaintances, usually over trifling matters. After taking a few drinks, he has often

threatened others, claimed things that were not his own, and made such a nuisance of

himself that local police would be called to deal with him.

He is boastful and histrionic, more eloquently and aggressively so with a few

highballs, and much given to temper tantrums. He frequently threatens to kill himself

over some petty vexation and once offered a pistol to his wife, urging her

grandiloquently to shoot him. He has never made an attempt, however, to harm

himself, though his opportunities have been unlimited.

He has been reported as having convulsive seizures. These developed when he

was refused special attention by physicians and seemed, according to their descriptions,

plainly and consciously designed toward obtaining various ends. This manifestation has

also been noted when he was confined to jail and wanted to be sent to a mental hospital

in order to escape charges that had been brought against him. These so-called seizures

have been observed several times in this hospital by competent psychiatrists. They did

not in any way suggest epilepsy nor were they convincing as possible reactions of true

hysteria. The patient is unquestionably conscious and shows that he is behaving

intentionally in this way to gain a recognized end. Unlike

THE MATERIAL 97

a conversion phenomenon, the purpose does not appear to be concealed from his

conscious awareness.63,76

Though occasionally confused after heavy drinking (perhaps with the addition of

drugs), he has at all other times been entirely rational, alert, shrewd, and free from

delusions and hallucinations.

Early in Frank's career his disturbance was diagnosed on several occasions as

hysteria, sometimes as both psychopathic personality and hysteria. Once he was given a

diagnosis of psychopathic personality with psychotic episodes. There was not, however,

any evidence of behavior or symptoms different from what he has shown on other

occasions. There is reason to suspect that the real and pressing need to keep this patient

hospitalized may have played an important part in his being so classified. The genuinely

irrational and incompetent behavior, no doubt, supports the use of such a term as

psychosis, despite the lack of any additional symptoms.

The irrational behavior which has characterized him is not based on a delusional

system or on any loss of the good reasoning ability he shows on examination. Some of

his most turbulent misconduct has, of course, been exhibited while he was intoxicated.

At such times he naturally lacked his customary shrewdness and alertness. However,

this cannot conscientiously be called a psychotic episode beyond and above his wellknown

inadequacy but rather the manifestation of inebriety. I do not mean to say that

this man is normal but only that he has none of the recognized types of mental disorder,

episodic or constant. If his drunken and wayward episodes are to be termed psychotic,

then it would seem that his state at other times might also be termed psychotic, since it

is in his shrewd, technically sane condition that he decides to add the picturesque

touches of intoxication which he well knows will bring him to the attention of the

police.

At this hospital, at the state hospitals, and at the other institutions to which Frank

was sent in recent years, he has been considered a sane man without psychotic episodes.

The symptomatic diagnoses of drug addiction and chronic alcoholism have been added.

During all these years he has shown no evidence of deterioration or regression, and

today at 38 years of age he is the same clever, alert person he was described as being

twenty years ago. Unlike nearly all real morphine addicts, he does not show ordinary

withdrawal symptoms or other signs of physical illness and acute distress when, after

being admitted to the hospital, he is deprived of opportunities to obtain the drug.

If the reports that he takes morphine have any factual basis, such use must be

sporadic. There is little or no evidence that effects of the drug have regularly played any

major role in his behavior. It appears that his chief connection with drugs has been

through his part in peddling them illicitly.

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His career in the hospital has been marked by frequent paroles which are always

terminated by his failing to return, returning drunk, or being taken up by the police for

petty theft, swindling, and futile and unprovoked disorder. Though ingratiating and

outwardly cooperative when he is trying to obtain parole or discharge, he constantly

schemes to escape or, surreptitiously, to call upon high authorities to have him released.

Once, while helping attendants on the disturbed ward, he succeeded in turning hot

water into a tub in which a psychotic patient lay in a continuous bath. He did not try to

injure the man seriously, but merely to hurt him a little as a joke. This is a fair example

of the inane, humorless mischief that underlies the pretentious front assumed by this

former pastor.

Despite his medicolegal status, which, of course, is technically regarded as

constituting sanity, those interested in finding some practical way to protect him and his

family and to cope with the ever accumulating problems succeeded on one occasion in

having him committed by the court. Those close to the situation evidently found in his

behavior reasons for action more compelling than the abstract criteria which stood in

the way of such a step. After being held in the hospital for several months, despite his

reiterated demands for discharge against medical advice, he called in an attorney.

Frank had in the past always found no difficulty in leaving when it suited his

purpose or his whim. In view of his well-demonstrated inability to live in freedom, he

was now, by means of the legal commitment, kept against his wishes in order to spare

his family, the community, and himself the hardships he had brought about before and

was sure to bring about again. The attorney for the government, in attempting to resist

habeas corpus proceedings, found himself in a familiar dilemma, as the following

quotations from his letter will show:

It is evident that the medical staff at the hospital are using the term insane to convey

the meaning of the medical definition of the word rather than the legal definition. In other

words, the thought back of the use of the word appears to me to be that it is the opinion

of neuropsychiatrists that this man is not suffering from a mental disease as physicians

understand the term, that he does not have a psychosis. It does appear, however, that it is

their opinion that the state of his mind due to drug addiction and also manifested by his

past antisocial behavior is such as to warrant the conclusions that he is incompetent and

that he should receive treatment in a hospital for the cure of nervous and mental diseases.

To say, however, that he is incompetent but not insane presents a rather inconsistent

picture with which to go into court. We may be confronted with such a question as why

he needs to be in a hospital for the care of nervous and mental diseases if he has no

nervous or mental disease.

THE MATERIAL 99

I am inclined to think that the terms insanity and incompetency so far as their legal

significance is concerned are used interchangeably and that the important point to be

considered, whether you call a man insane or merely admit that he is incompetent, is

whether the person is incapable of administering his personal estate in the normal manner

of a prudent man and whether there is definite evidence of a more or less prolonged

departure from normal behavior as compared with the standards of the community, such

as dissipation of funds, unwise purchases, and utter lack of appreciation of values.

Because of the fact that I anticipate some difficulty in trying to show that the man is

incompetent but not insane, I would appreciate an expression of your views on the matter.

It occurs to me also that a man ought to be confined who is a menace to others and likely

to do harm to others, even though his mental condition may be due in part to inadequate

mental development and in part to the use of drugs. He may be just as dangerous to

himself or to others as a person suffering from a mental disease and who, according to the

purely medical definition of insanity, would be pronounced insane.

Of course, it might be asked why these people are not let out of the mental

hospitals and left to the police. If they are considered responsible for their misdeeds, let

them be punished. This, as a matter of fact, is what the average psychiatric hospital is

nearly always forced to do, whatever its physicians may think of the wisdom and

practicality of such a procedure. These men are studied, found free of recognized

mental disorder which might make them unaware of what they are doing, and are sent

back out into the world. They are arrested not once but many times. Most of them

seldom commit such serious crimes that they are kept out of circulation in penal

institutions for long periods. Only rarely can they be kept for more than a few days.

They do not follow any purposive criminal life. They make a nuisance of themselves to

the community as a whole and often tragically wreck the lives of those close to them,

and all to no discernible end. The police and the courts tire of them. Through various

influences they are forced back on the mental hospitals where they take legal action to

regain their freedom, only to begin the process again.

If, as stated in the quotations previously cited, it would be difficult to prove this

man incompetent but not insane, it would be far more difficult, by existing definitions

of psychiatry, to prove him "insane." His perfectly rational (superficial) behavior under

scrutiny, his freedom from delusions, his shrewdness, his alertness, and his convincing

plan for a normal, useful life, in short, his plain sanity as this is ordinarily understood,

make it all but impossible for a judge or a jury to call him insane. Psychiatrists, familiar

with his long record of senseless behavior, are able to see more reason to do so than

could be brought out before a court in terms of abstract criteria by

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which the decision is determined. But according to the accepted standards of

psychiatry, his diagnosis carries with it an official and automatic endorsement of the

patient as sane and competent. No matter how strongly impressed by real and practical

evidence to the contrary, all physicians, testifying in such a case must admit that the

official technicalities approve this paradox.

Having won his case in court, the patient was released against medical advice.

Frank did not go home but remained in the city where he at once claimed the attention

of the police. On being released after a few days in jail, he took a room at the best hotel

and annoyed other guests by various tactics, such as trying to borrow money, sponge on

them for a meal, or sell them something useless or nonexistent. He became at times

loudly boastful or rowdy and eventually fell on the floor drunk. He refused to pay for

his room and resisted the management's attempts to remove him.

He sought loans under bold-faced pretenses, ran up debts without regard to the

possibilities of payment, and telephoned and wrote to his family, threatening suicide

unless his demands for money were promptly met. There are indications that he was

not inactive during this period in old devices of petty thievery, shortchanging, and

various types of fraud, sharp practice, and connivance that exist, more or less, on the

fringe of organized but illegal racketeering found in any city.

Nothing, however, could be pinned on him by the law that led to his being

effectively controlled. In all issues of this sort that arose, he had his record as a patient

once legally committed and often confined to psychiatric institutions. This record was,

in his ingenious hands, of considerable value as insurance against penal restraint.

After several arrests, the police began to call on the hospital to relieve them of

their problems with this man. They were told that nothing could be done since he had

been legally removed and the hospital was enjoined by the court not to hold him. Soon

afterward the police and various local people began to seek advice on how to deal with

him from the attorney who had liberated this man.

The patient himself soon joined in, coming repeatedly to the attorney's office or

his house, sometimes drunk and always unreasonable, to shout about the injustices of

the world, borrow money, evade threatening penalties, and to demand diverse

preposterous services. The veteran had promised to pay the attorney's bill with bonus

money, but now it appeared that this money had already been squandered. Hoping to

collect his fee and, no doubt, from humanitarian impulses, the attorney sought to keep

in touch with his client. Those with whom he had run up bills and floated little loans

joined others swindled or defrauded in small matters and took up

THE MATERIAL 101

their problems with the patient's legal representative. Soon the incessant complaints

from annoyed people, the client's own nagging or uproarious invasions upon him at all

hours, and the constant queries of the police drove him to seek relief. The patient being

again in jail, the attorney persuaded him to agree to return to the hospital voluntarily and

pled with the physician in charge to take him back, confessing himself at fault ever to

have released such a scourge on the community and on himself.

Arrangements were made for readmission. The patient arrived in custody of a

policeman. He was still somewhat stimulated from a recent intoxication but, though

overbearing and pompous, showed no signs of real drunkenness nor of an officially

recognized psychosis.

Frank took a high-handed manner, swaggered about, and finally refused to come

back into the hospital, saying that he had no mental disease and that he preferred to

return to jail where he would soon be released to carry out important business plans and

social activities. He enjoyed the incident, played up his role dramatically, and took a

peremptory and haughty tone with everyone.

He soon obtained his freedom, but some weeks later after running up big debts,

giving several more bad checks, and participating in a series of senseless, bawdy

escapades, he was finally returned to the hospital. Three months later he again obtained

his discharge on a writ of habeas corpus but not through the same attorney. The story

in its broad essentials was repeated.

Since his last admission, following the exploits just mentioned, he has been true

to form. After varying periods on a closed ward, parole has been given; he has lost it

repeatedly and gone back among "demented" and helpless groups with whom he is, to

say the least, not at home. He has continued at all times free from the technical

stigmata of psychosis, remaining crafty, intelligent, and superficially cooperative while

trying to gain his ends.

Frank takes advantage of every opportunity to make trouble in the hospital and is

rather restless and extremely dissatisfied. He sends frequent letters to women in town

to whom he regards himself as paying court. These are written in a neat hand, well

spelled, and well expressed and are much better letters than would be expected from a

man of his education. They are marked with self-righteousness, extreme egotism, trite

sentimentality, and monumental falsehood. His tone is that of a lover who regards his

own passion as very high and rare.

"Only God knows," he writes, "why I wasn't left over there among the poppies

with my heroic buddies," falsely describing himself as a captain in charge of 272 men.

"My wife never understood me!" he complains in the same letter. What does he expect

of her? The question invites meditation

 

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    Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 2: The Material , Part 1: The disorder in full clinical manifestations, 19. Stanley, During the summer of 1972 a small item of news appeared in many of our daily newspapers over the country. It was an item that immediately engaged my attention at energyenhancement.org

 

 

 
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