Refining the Construct of Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Diagnostic Criteria and Subtypes
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- 1 November 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 165 (11) , 1473-1481
- https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2008.07030376
Abstract
Objective: Narcissistic personality disorder has received relatively little empirical attention. This study was designed to provide an empirically valid and clinically rich portrait of narcissistic personality disorder and to identify subtypes of the disorder. Method: A random national sample of psychiatrists and clinical psychologists (N=1,201) described a randomly selected current patient with personality pathology. Clinicians provided detailed psychological descriptions of the patients using the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure-II (SWAP-II), completed a checklist of axis II diagnostic criteria, and provided construct ratings for each axis II personality disorder. Descriptions of narcissistic patients based on both raw and standardized SWAP-II item scores were aggregated to identify, respectively, the most characteristic and the most distinctive features of narcissistic personality disorder. Results: A total of 255 patients met DSM-IV criteria for narcissistic personality disorder based on the checkl...Keywords
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