Cleckley, Hervey Milton (1903–1984)

US psychiatrist. He wrote The Mask of Sanity (1946), a highly influential work on the psychopathic personality. With colleague Corbett Thigpen, he wrote Three Faces of Eve (1957), the first exhaustive description of a multiple personality, which was made into a movie. He also wrote the less well-known, but equally important book, The Caricature of Love (1957).

He was born in Augusta, Georgia. He was associated with the Medical College of Georgia 1937–84.