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Psychopath

THE MASK OF SANITY

Section 2: The Material

Part 2: Incomplete manifestations or suggestions of the disorder

23. The psychopath as gentleman

 

 

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23. The psychopath as gentleman

This man, whom for convenience we may call W. R. L., first came to my

attention professionally when seen strapped down during hydrotherapy in a continuous

tub. There, surrounded by dozens of the most complete madmen an imaginative layman

could conceive, he strained, cursed, bellowed, and hurled defiant imprecations at all

about him.

Having seen him in the past occasionally at balls or garden parties in a southern

city famous for the amenities of life, I was astonished at the spectacle he now presented.

He literally raved as he twisted and spat, damning his wife especially but sparing no one.

Though quieter and less dramatic when he believed himself unobserved, he gave at this

moment as good a superficial impression of honest madness as any of the psychotic

patients among whom he writhed.

After a few minutes he quieted down enough to speak with some relevance and

made it plain in vigorous terms that he held his wife entirely responsible for his plight.

He admitted drinking; this was his wife's fault. He had, to be sure, derided and fought

with the policemen. This would never have happened had his wife not called them to

him for no good reason.

This man, 43 years of age, had been through several dozen such episodes during

the last ten years. Belonging to a family widely known for its wealth since colonial

times, his direct paternal ancestors included a general in the Continental Army during

the Revolutionary War and two governors of a proud Southern state. His maternal

background included a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a Confederate

brigadier celebrated for his dashing and urbane personal qualities no less than for his

valor at Antietam and Gettysburg.

W. R. L., when glimpsed at a garden party or when hailed in the street, seemed a

proper and impressive scion of two such splendid strains, uniting in his person, it might

be said, the rarest culture of two states. His courtesy was not only warm but

distinguished, his manners so cordial that one felt better after greeting him. His general

bearing combined the utmost dignity with perfect spontaneity, giving a deep conviction

of one sophisticated, mellow, and commanding. But there were times when this

impressive mask dropped and our gallant gentleman took on quite another color.

One of these incidents immediately preceded his admission to the hospital. After

having eschewed strong drink utterly for a year and maintained, on the whole, his fine

superficial front, he suddenly and for no discernible reason got pretty generously full. A

bit wobbly but fired with

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energy, he burst into the house, roundly cursed his wife, smashed a few vases,

threatened to give her a thorough mauling, and departed for a road. house. Here he

reveled for a few hours with more belligerence and buffoonery than gaiety or eroticism,

then swept back in a passion to his house. He shook his wife out of bed, accused her of

ruining his life and of unfairly taking possession of money which he had earned through

shrewd speculation, and demanded a check for thousands.

Actually he had for many years been sustained financially by his wife's father, a

high official in banking circles who not only kept his son-in-law employed in a

respectable position at a local bank which he controlled but also furnished from time to

time relatively stupendous sums to cover rash and disastrous losses at gambling and in

speculation.

The patient's wife had a fairly large estate held in trust. The income from this

was, however, not enough to cover the wants of the husband. W. R. L., at the time he

married, was by no means dependent on his inlaws. His father had built up a

stockbroker's business that fluctuated in value between one and several millions. W.

brought his bride to a great Georgian mansion surrounded by takes and gardens where a

dozen servants often maintained scores of guests in spectacular comfort. Even before

the death of the father, himself a rash but remarkably intuitive market plunger, the son

had made heavy inroads into the family fortune. Afterward the other beneficiaries drew

out their interests and stood aside while he doubled, halved, tripled, and finally lost

outright his entire holdings. While gaining and while losing, he spent money with equal

lavishness, chartering airplanes to fly to mistresses halfway across the continent, casually

sending emeralds to chorus girls, or buying a yacht to cruise off the Florida keys.

Penniless, he resented bitterly the unwillingness of his father-in-law to let him

throw his wife's fortune also into speculation. Stormy wrangles had been almost

constant during the early years of this marriage. W., at intervals of a few weeks or a

couple of months, went on hard sprees during which he sometimes tore off his wife's

clothes or burst in on his father-in-law to threaten and to arraign him as the cause of his

own financial decline and the common marital strife. The father-in-law, a man of much

dignity and spirit, urged his daughter to leave W. and even threatened at times to cut off

the ample income which he chiefly furnished them. After particularly outrageous

episodes, the wife often agreed to quit, but W., once sober and aware of what he stood

to lose, had no difficulty in appearing so earnest and penitent that he won her back. For

a considerable time, pride kept the wife, the father-in-law, and others concerned from

calling in policemen

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to quell the tempestuous and clamorous tumults that W. raised. Finally this step was

taken, and it has now in fact become habitual.

On the occasion under discussion, Mrs. L. succeeded, after a struggle with her

husband, in reaching headquarters by telephone. When the police arrived, they found

her locked for protection in a downstairs room. W., boasting that he could not be taken

alive, had knocked the wooden sup. ports from the banister railings and piled these,

with chairs, coffee tables, and other furniture, into a barricade on the stairway.

Half naked above in the bathroom behind additional defenses, he challenged the

law with magniloquent mock heroics to take him. For a while he waved a revolver as he

hurled his obscene threats. Seeing that the policemen, who knew him well, came on

despite his gestures, he laid this aside. Though making no serious attempt to injure his

besiegers sufficiently to provoke painful retaliation, he wrestled with them, clawed with

a fine show of violence, and was taken off cursing, grunting, and kicking.

Since short sojourns at the barracks in the past had done so little good, the family

arranged to have him sent that very night as an emergency case to the psychiatric

hospital. They probably had vague hopes that some remediable illness might be found

as a cause for his conduct, but the stronger motive was hope that finding himself in

what he regarded as the lunatic asylum might give him food for thought and possibly a

taste for mending his ways.

After settling down sufficiently to permit an interview, he showed no ordinary

evidence of a psychosis. He was charming superficially, dismissed his own deeds with

lordly insouciance, bewailed his plight, for which he still blamed his wife, though he

now spoke of her always with a show of gallantry and implied that her father and other

relatives were responsible for her causing him all this trouble.

Though fundamentally childish and full of puerile self-pity, he was on the surface

one of the most delightful persons I have ever seen. Something inimitably well-bred in

his manner, a gracious and warming geniality which seemed, surely, to overlie great

dignity and pride, caused all the personnel on the ward to treat him with particular

deference. He all but became the pet of the hospital.

He immediately assumed that the physician was chiefly concerned in helping him

get back into the good graces of his wife, who at present refused to accept him. He

would have left the hospital at once but his inlaws and members of his own family had

agreed for the police to take him if he did.

Persuaded by his apparent sincerity, his wife agreed after two days for

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him to come home on a pass for a few hours. She soon called the hospital and asked

for attendants to be sent. He was brought in, mean and vehement, from a barroom

where he had already drunk to excess after first creating a shocking uproar at his house.

The next day he agreed that he had conducted himself unwisely but laid his

actions chiefly to his wife's failure to show complete confidence in him. Not a trace of

anything like shame or remorse was discernible. Somewhat alarmed now that his wife

might actually be persuaded to leave him, he bent all his efforts toward winning her

over. She refused to visit him for several days. He spent hours writing letters to her.

These he read proudly to his physician. They were of rather far-fetched eloquence and

extravagant sentiment, and he read them with much oratorical gusto:

"What does any misunderstanding weigh against the immortal love I bear you?

The carping and misguided influence of others should not be allowed to come between

those united in such devotion as is ours, My darling! My sweetheart!"

Wasn't this the best note to strike? he asked his physician. A politely subdued

twinkle of pride and canniness came into his glance. He had succeeded so often that he

was already confident. Nevertheless, he showed great vexation and restlessness at the

delay, sighed and held his head in his hands, swearing that he could not stand it another

hour. He very plainly showed and stated that he felt even one day in the hospital too

severe a measure to take against such trivial indiscretions as his.

After three or four days his wife, a highly intelligent person, though far from

confident that he would not continue in his ways, was won over sufficiently to take him

home.

When last heard from several months later, he had given no further serious

trouble. It is quite possible that he may continue the appearance of a fairly good

adjustment for a year or two, but it must be remembered that he is supported in this by

financial aid and by strong moral efforts on the part of his wife, his father-in-law, and

others.

His history shows that he has remained as long as two years sober, fairly

industrious, and nearly always in his mask of the grand and charming gentleman. It is

important, however, not to give him access to substantial sums of money. Eventually,

despite all efforts to protect him, his psychopathic tendencies come forward and he

repeats with ingenious variations the theme of the episodes here described.

 

Next: Section 2: The Material , Part 2: Incomplete manifestations or suggestions of the disorder, 24. The psychopath as scientist

 

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Section 2, Part 2

 

  • Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 2: The Material , Part 2: Incomplete manifestations or suggestions of the disorder, 20. Degrees of disguise in essential pathology
    Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 2: The Material , Part 2: Incomplete manifestations or suggestions of the disorder, 20. Degrees of disguise in essential pathology, The cases already reported are only a few among many hundreds whom I have observed. All of these people, when their records over the years are considered, strike one as remarkably similar. If the story of each could be told in detail, it is believed that the similarity would become more plain to any reader. It is the contention of the present argument that this personality disorder shapes and hardens into the outlines of a very definite clinical entity or reaction type, into a pattern of disorder quite as recognizable and as real as any listed in psychiatric nomenclature at energyenhancement.org

  • Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 2: The Material , Part 2: Incomplete manifestations or suggestions of the disorder, 21. The psychopath as businessman
    Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 2: The Material , Part 2: Incomplete manifestations or suggestions of the disorder, 21. The psychopath as businessman, No attempt will be made to give a detailed history of this man. Suffice it to say that the incidents mentioned are not isolated experiences in the general life pattern but rather expressions of a motif which persistently recurs to interrupt the outward serenity. He is now 50 years of age, and he has gone on to achieve considerable business success, being an equal partner in a wholesale grocery concern. As a businessman there is much to be said for him. Except for his periodic sprees, he works industriously at energyenhancement.org

  • Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 2: The Material , Part 2: Incomplete manifestations or suggestions of the disorder, 22. The psychopath as man of the world
    Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 2: The Material , Part 2: Incomplete manifestations or suggestions of the disorder, 22. The psychopath as man of the world, The psychopath as man of the world comes from excellent stock and his educational background includes four years at a celebrated preparatory school and three at a well-known university. During his student days he took no interest whatsoever in any of his studies. His shrewdness, his skill at utilizing the work of his friends, from whose papers he usually patched together his own themes and essays, and his reliance on cheating in examinations enabled him to stay in the University through his junior year. His real interests during this period consisted in decking himself with fine clothes in which to saunter about, in presiding at social gatherings, and in flimsy but pretentious lovemaking with a large number of prominent young ladies. In the eyes of these and of their mothers he passed as a dashing beau, almost as an arbiter elegantiarum at energyenhancement.org

  • Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 2: The Material , Part 2: Incomplete manifestations or suggestions of the disorder, 23. The psychopath as gentleman
    Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 2: The Material , Part 2: Incomplete manifestations or suggestions of the disorder, 23. The psychopath as gentleman, This man, whom for convenience we may call W. R. L., first came to my attention professionally when seen strapped down during hydrotherapy in a continuous tub. There, surrounded by dozens of the most complete madmen an imaginative layman could conceive, he strained, cursed, bellowed, and hurled defiant imprecations at all about him at energyenhancement.org

  • Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 2: The Material , Part 2: Incomplete manifestations or suggestions of the disorder, 24. The psychopath as scientist
    Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 2: The Material , Part 2: Incomplete manifestations or suggestions of the disorder, 24. The psychopath as scientist, Limitations of space allow only a few highlights to be thrown on this mans interesting career. Though still in the late twenties, he was already a doctor of philosophy, and the co-author of several creditable papers on subjects in the general field of physics at energyenhancement.org

  • Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 2: The Material , Part 2: Incomplete manifestations or suggestions of the disorder, 25. The psychopath as physician
    Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 2: The Material , Part 2: Incomplete manifestations or suggestions of the disorder, 25. The psychopath as physician, When first seen by me, he was still in his early forties. From the country town in which he was practicing medicine an inquiry came concerning his professional ability. Everyone regarded him as a brilliant man. His patients loved him, and while he was working regularly, his collections were more than adequate. It was often impossible to find him, for now and then, in the classic manner, he lay out in third-rate hotel rooms or in the fields semiconscious until he could be found and coaxed back home at energyenhancement.org

  • Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 2: The Material , Part 2: Incomplete manifestations or suggestions of the disorder, 26. The psychopath as psychiatrist
    Psychopath Hervey Cleckley THE MASK OF SANITY, Section 2: The Material , Part 2: Incomplete manifestations or suggestions of the disorder, 26. The psychopath as psychiatrist, In the group who show some fundamental characteristics of the typical psychopath but who make a good or fair superficial adjustment in society are sometimes found men who hold responsible positions. Lawyers, business executives, physicians, and engineers who show highly suggestive features of the disorder have been personally observed. Perhaps one would think that the psychiatrist, with good opportunity to observe the psychopath, would eschew all his ways. I believe, however, that a glimpse can be given of characteristics of the psychopath in such a person at energyenhancement.org

 

 

 
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