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NPD Symptoms

1. grandiosity / exaggeration
2. fantastic thinking / romantic
3. believes special / unique
4. requires admiration
5. entitled / demanding
6. exploitive / manipulative
7. lacks empathy
8. envious / jealous
9. arrogant / haughty

Quick links:

• Narcissism FAQ
• Wilkipedia on NPD
• Wilkipedia on Narcissism
• Bullies
• Joanna Ashmun
• Alice Miller
• Albert Bernstein 

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  

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Narcissist can be good leaders?

Michael Maccoby sees the productive narcissistic leaders - Lincoln, Reagan, FDR and Obama - as inspirational. They can also be destructive.

View his talk to google personnel on youtube.

Moccoby's book: Narcissistic Leaders: Who Succeeds and Who Fails.

Introduction to the book here

Excerpt, chapter "Recognizing Personality Types" here

Narcissists want to be leaders it has been found in studies. here

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