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A diagnosis of NPD, like other personality disorders, is made by a qualified healthcare professional in a clinical interview. In the narcissistic personality disorder, there is a fragile sense of self that becomes a view of oneself as exceptional. [1] Narcissistic personality disorder usually develops either in youth or in early adulthood. [2]
Pathological narcissism, defined as the libidinal investment in a pathological structure of the self, is further divided into three types (regression to the regulation of the infantile self-esteem, narcissistic choice of object, narcissistic personality disorder) with narcissistic personality disorder being the most severe of all.
Assessment of narcissism required clinical interviews until the popular Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) was created by Raskin and Hall in 1979. [32] Since the NPI, several other measures have emerged which attempt to provide self-report alternatives for personality disorder assessment. [33]
He has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers and a number of books, including The Handbook of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Theoretical Approaches, Empirical Findings, and Treatments (with Joshua Miller) and The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement (with Jean Twenge). [3]
Derived from the DSM-III criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), the NPI has been employed heavily by personality and social psychology researchers. [1] The NPI is not intended for use in diagnosing Narcissistic Personality Disorder. [3] Rather, it is often said to measure "normal" or "subclinical" narcissism. [1]
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Malignant narcissism is not a diagnostic category defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders . Rather, it is a subcategory of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) [2] which could also include traits of antisocial personality disorder or paranoid personality disorder.
The essence of healthy narcissism is the ability to invest love in oneself and other people. [3] Thus it is devoid of the drive to exploit and cause harm to others as seen in narcissistic personality disorder, in which love is self-directed only. [33] He distinguishes trait narcissism as separate from pathological narcissism.