Claudia Moscovici
09.07.2018

What is a Psychopath?

Close Readings of Hervey Cleckley’s The Mask of Sanity Unlike Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, psychopaths don’t usually come across as socially awkward, reclusive and bizarre. On the contrary, they often seem charming, outgoing and normal. That’s a big part of their lure, or “mask of sanity.” The main experts on psychopathy, Hervey Cleckley, Robert Hare and […]