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W. Keith Campbell || The New Science of Narcissism

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Narcissism and the DSM 4 and 5

Narcissism is described as a combination of grandiosity and vulnerability with preference for grandiosity. You read the description of narcissism in the hand and the DSM and you're like, Oh, it sounds a little vulnerable. And then you read the traits and you are like, that sounds pretty grandiose. So that's how the NPD works. The key to have a diagnosis of a personality disorder is you have to have clinically significant impairment has to mess your life up. Is this in not if you mess other people's lives that can be counted that can be because that would be a relational impairment.

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