Corbett Hilsman Thigpen

Hervey Milton Cleckley

P.O. Box 2619, Augusta, GA 30914-2619. Shipping by the regular book rate. First revised Edition, 1992, contains the latest thinking by Drs. Corbett Thigpen & Hervey Cleckly on multiple personality. Hailed as outstanding! This nonfiction scientific documentary of multiple personality electrified psychology & psychiatry. Drs. J. McV. Hunt & Cordon Allport, outstanding psychologists, hailed it, "The most delightful treatise of psychopathological literature of the mid-twentieth century." THE THREE FACES OF EVE has been translated into 28 different languages & remains the definitive work in multiple personality. This world-renowned treatise has become a psychological classic. Increasingly, it has been cited for high literary merit. It is required reading in many colleges & universities in psychology & English literature. It is a popular public library book. An Academy Award winning motion picture starring Joanne Woodward, THE THREE FACES OF EVE was acclaimed by hundreds of outstanding newspapers & magazines. THE SATURDAY REVIEW SYNDICATE said, "The most extraordinary & fascinating book of the year." LOS ANGELES TIMES, "Pales most novels in comparison." INDIANAPOLIS STAR, "--fascinating & engrossing." CHICAGO TRIBUNE, "An unforgettable experience."

The Three Faces of Eve

"Since the last edition of this book was prepared, many additional psychopaths have been observed pursuing their vivid patterns of maladjustment. A few encouraging reports of successful therapeutic measures have emerged. The number of patients concerned is, however, too small to furnish substantial evidence that a regularly effective means of dealing with the psychopath's disorder has been discovered. It is my increasingly strong belief that the immediate and practical goal of all concerned with this problem should be to promote a general understanding that these people have a social disability that is real and extremely serious. Adequate means must be provided to control legally these severely disordered patients like those long ago provided, and available today, for far less incompetent patients of other types. Even if a truly curative therapy is never devised, perhaps half the damage, crime, waste, useless disorder, and sorrow caused now by psychopaths could be eliminated by a reasonably wise use of such legal measures for control. In the present revision I have attempted to make clearer my concepts of the psychopath's confusing and paradoxical disorder. It is not easy to convey this concept, that of a biologic organism outwardly intact, showing excellent peripheral function, but centrally deficient or disabled in such a way that abilities, excellent at the only levels where we can formally test them, cannot be utilized consistently for sane purposes or prevented from regularly working toward self-destructive and other seriously pathologic results. Impressed by its effectiveness as used by Henry Head to distinguish a complex and deep type of aphasia, I chose the term semantic to indicate my concept of a personality disorder which appears to have, at least hypothetically, some important similarities"--Préf. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved).

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