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- Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 3: Cataloging the material , Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 29. Purpose of this step
Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 3: Cataloging the material , Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 29. Purpose of this step, Some material has been presented in which manifestations of the disorder occur. It is our task to arrange it in such a way that its features can be seen clearly and compared with the features of other disorders. Such a step should be helpful in our efforts to recognize what we are dealing with and to evaluate it. Let us compare these patients known as psychopaths with others showing clinical illness and deviated reactions or patterns of living. Significant details should emerge, differentiation should become clearer, and distinguishing features of our subject should become more apparent at energyenhancement.org
- Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 3: Cataloging the material , Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 30. The psychotic
Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 3: Cataloging the material , Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 30. The psychotic, For the sake of emphasis let us first contrast very briefly the psychopath with the general group of psychotic patients to which he is considered not to belong. These, if their disorder is well advanced, are usually recognized by the law as 'insane' and by the man on the street as irrational, irresponsible, plainly unable to accept the general facts accepted by humanity at large, and, furthermore, unable to provide for themselves or to remain safely or conveniently at liberty among their fellows. Such people frequently have beliefs that are not only false but bizarre, inconsistent, and nearly always impossible to remove even by convincing demonstrations of their impossibility at energyenhancement.org
- Psychopath THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 3: Cataloging the material , Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 31. Deviations recognized as similar to the psychoses but regarded as incomplete or less severe reactions
Psychopath THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 3: Cataloging the material , Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 31. Deviations recognized as similar to the psychoses but regarded as incomplete or less severe reactions, As noted earlier, conditions resembling psychoses but appearing incomplete or less severe are still classified officially under the same general diagnostic term as the disorder to which this book is devoted. Such an arrangement has been approved by some as a means of placing together groups assumed to be on the borderline of serious disorder with a genuine similarity in degree if not in type at energyenhancement.org
- Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 3: Cataloging the material, Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 32. The psychoneurotic
Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 3: Cataloging the material, Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 32. The psychoneurotic, People who suffer from personality disorders which cause them to be anxious, restless, unhappy, and obsessed with thoughts they themselves recognize as absurd but who are, in the lay sense, altogether sane have for years been classed as psychoneurotic. They recognize reason in general, often admit that their symptoms arise from emotional conflicts, and are free from delusions and hallucinations at energyenhancement.org
- Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 3: Cataloging the material, Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 33. The mental defective
Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 3: Cataloging the material, Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 33. The mental defective, The mental defective often behaves foolishly or ineffectively and, if the defectiveness is great, may show prolonged and serious maladjustment in ordinary surroundings. In contrast with the psychopath, however, the mental defective is obviously stupid, and his follies may be understood readily as depending on his lack of intelligence, a handicap that is easily demonstrated at energyenhancement.org
- Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Next: Section 3: Cataloging the material, Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 33. The mental defective
Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Next: Section 3: Cataloging the material, Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 33. The mental defective, Though efforts have been made to interpret criminalism as a form of mental disorder and many criminal careers have been expounded as reactions to emotional conflict,11,12 the sort of person described here shows the following important points of distinction from the typical criminal at energyenhancement.org
- Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 3: Cataloging the material, Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 35. Other character and behavior disorders, including delinquency
Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 3: Cataloging the material, Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 35. Other character and behavior disorders, Those who repeatedly commit antisocial acts or continue to carry out behavior in other ways unacceptable to the group and incompatible with good standing among one's fellows are often referred to as delinquents at energyenhancement.org
- Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 3: Cataloging the material, Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 36. A case showing circumscribed behavior disorder
Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 3: Cataloging the material, Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 36. A case showing circumscribed behavior disorder, When behavior disorder is circumscribed, in a child or in an adult, one may sometimes feel that symptomatically the patient resembles a psychopath but that a different sort of personality lies behind the manifestation. Instead of essential indifference to the pathologic situation, we sometimes see genuine zeal to avoid the faulty and self-damaging acts. It is not rare to find relatively normal attitudes to most aspects of life and sometimes healthy and admirable personality features at energyenhancement.org
- Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 3: Cataloging the material, Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 37. Specific homosexuality and other consistent sexual deviations
Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 3: Cataloging the material, Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 37. Specific homosexuality and other consistent sexual deviations, When the first edition of this book was written it had for many years been customary to use the term sexual psychopath to designate homosexuals, sadists, masochists, and also people specifically inclined towards exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, cross-dressing, and pedophilia. Included at times with these deviations under the concept of sexual psychopathy were also types of abnormal behavior designated as erotomania and sexual immaturity. For many years before and after the initial publication of the Mask of Sanity this custom had authoritative sanction in our nomenclature at energyenhancement.org
- Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 3: Cataloging the material, Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 38. The erratic man of genius
Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 3: Cataloging the material, Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 38. The erratic man of genius, Rather curiously, one might at first think, many persons widely recognized as geniuses have been placed by various writers in the classification of psychopathic personality.128,131,156 The vagueness and plasticity of the term as it was for so long officially used seem still to promote it's being stretched in practice to cover nearly any type of abnormal behavior imaginable, and the literal or etymologic connotation is, of course, no less all embracing at energyenhancement.org
- Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 3: Cataloging the material, Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 39. The injudicious hedonist and some other drinkers
Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 3: Cataloging the material, Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 39. The injudicious hedonist and some other drinkers, Those who devote their lives unduly to sensual pleasure are popularly regarded by more sober and restrained members of society as wicked or depraved. By his fellows who are especially austere the ways of the careless bon vivant are often attacked with thunderous vigor and even, by certain extremists, held as largely responsible for the ills of mankind at energyenhancement.org
- Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 3: Cataloging the material, Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 40. The clinical alcoholic
Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 3: Cataloging the material, Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 40. The clinical alcoholic, The term clinical alcoholic is chosen for convenience to signify the large group of pathologic drinkers who are still making some genuine effort to adjust in normal life but are using drink to escape reality which they cannot quite face and, by a vicious cycle, making themselves steadily more inadequate to face this reality. Such drinkers may, in several respects, be contrasted with the psychopath (antisocial personality) just as the non-alcoholic neurotic contrasts with the psychotic patient at energyenhancement.org
- Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 3: Cataloging the material, Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 41. The malingerer
Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 3: Cataloging the material, Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 41. The malingerer, The malingerer, so far as his relation to the psychopath is concerned, may be dismissed with a few words. Many psychopaths malinger at times. They seldom malinger consistently over long periods toward a constant aim. The malingerer pure and simple sticks to his purpose and, on gainging his objective, uses it in some fairly human way. Malingering is merely an incident in the psychopath's versatile career at energyenhancement.org
- Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 3: Cataloging the material, Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 42. Fictional characters of psychiatric interest
Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 3: Cataloging the material, Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 42. Fictional characters of psychiatric interest, Characters from literature, it may be argued, not being real people, are therefore of no value in the discussion of a medical problem. It can scarcely be doubted, however, that genuinely creative writers have often presented personalities more fully and more truly than we can readily get to know them in life. And sometimes minor writers succeed in portraying personalities that seem to be reliably true. The characters of the novelist and the dramatist are, furthermore, accessible to all who care to read about them, unlike the patient who has been seen and studied but cannot be presented personally to the reader. For the purpose of this discussion I feel that several points can be made by citing fictional characters, some of whom I believe have been no less faithfully drawn than patients reported in psychiatric examinations at energyenhancement.org
- Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 3: Cataloging the material, Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 43. The psychopath in history
Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 3: Cataloging the material, Part 2: A comparison with other disorders, 43. The psychopath in history, Over a period of many decades psychiatrists, and sometimes other writers, have made attempts to classify prominent historical figures-rulers, military leaders, famous artists and writers-as cases of psychiatric disorder or as people showing some of the manifestations associated with various psychiatric disorders. Many professional and lay observers in recent years have commented on the sadistic and paranoid conduct and attitudes reported in Adolf Hitler and in some of the other wartime leaders in Nazi Germany at energyenhancement.org
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