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Home Index
Terms and Usage of this site
Narcissistic Personality Disorder Symptoms
- grandiosity / exaggeration
- fantastic thinking / romantic
- believes special / unique
- requires admiration
- entitled / demanding
- exploitive / manipulative
- lacks empathy
- envious / jealous
- arrogant / haughty
Narcissism links:
- Narcissism FAQ
- Wilkipedia on NPD
- Wilkipedia on Narcissism
- Sam Vaknin’s site
- Bullies and Narcissism
- Joanna Ashmun site
- National Public Radio
- Alice Miller’s site
- Albert Bernstein's site
- N-Courage site
Letters to Sam Vaknin
- Letter 1: is there such a thing as a good narcissist?
- Letter 2: are victims to blame?
- Letter 3: examples of NPD
- Letter 4: the pain of the victims
- Letter 5 : the dyad
- Letter 6 : what causes NPD?
- Letter 7 : Sadism and altruism in NPD
- Letter 8 : Good, Bad, and Ugly NPD
- Letter 9 : Red carpet and Postmodern NPD
- Letter 10 : are NPDs Evil?
- Letter 11 : frenemies and example of evil.
- Letter 12 : vanity and beauty in NPD
Working with others is sometimes enjoyable and other times it can be trying. I have listed links to sites that give practical tips for helping you deal with difficult people and situations. Most people have narcissitic traits, but when you are dealing with a co-worker, employee or boss who has a Narcissitic Personality Disorder, you may feel like you are the one who is crazy! There is help for you, read on...
An individual's work history may provide little help in making the distinction. Highly disturbed narcissistic individuals may find extraordinary success in certain professions, such as big business, the arts, politics, the entertainment industry, athletics and televangelism field. In some cases, however, narcissistic pathology may be reflected in a superficial quality to one's professional interests, as though achievement in and acclaim are more important than mastery of the field itself.
from Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice / The DSM-IV Edition's comments on Cluster B Personality Disorders - Narcissistic"
"Most organizations have a serial bully. It never ceases to amaze me how one person's divisive, disordered, dysfunctional behavior can permeate the entire organization like a cancer." Tim Field
Moccoby's suggestions site
Papers: Who's the fairest of them all?: The impact of narcissism on self- and other- rated fairness in the workplace N in the work place
MSN Narcissist group on projecting
Psychology Today article Big Egos in Business
How To Deal with the Office Drama Queen
How to deal with Difficult people: criticism, idiots, control freaks