Psyche Saturday - Admire This Reflection: Narcissistic Personality Disorder

We’ve already discussed Borderline, Histrionic, and Antisocial Personalities, so the time has come for us to discuss Narcissistic Personality Disorder, or NPD.

We hear so many people throw this term around, that someone is a narcissist, or that they have narcissistic tendencies, but is it really as common as people truly believe? And what makes someone go from an ordinary egotist to having a true diagnosis of NPD?

References:
https://www.ancient.eu/Narcissus/#:~:text=Narcissus%20is%20a%20figure%20from,him%20from%20his%20self%2Dabsorption.

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5^th Ed. American Psychiatric Association.

http://labs.psychology.illinois.edu/~rcfraley/attachment.htm

Sands, Stella The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders p. 367 (2011)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-utah-trial/elizabeth-smarts-accused-kidnapper-not-insane-witness-idUSTRE6B661I20101207

Buck, N.M.L., et al. (2014). Personality Traits are Related to Intimate Partner Violence Among Securely Attached Individuals.

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Bennett, A. and Johnson, D. (2017). Co-morbidity of personality disorder and clinical syndrome in high-risk incarcerated offenders.

Nenadic, I., et al. (2015). Brain structure in narcissistic personality disorder: A VBM and DTI pilot study.

Schulze, L., et al. (2013). Gray matter abnormalities in patients with narcissistic personality disorder.