Narcissistic Personality Disorders: Abnormal Psychology
Narcissistic Personality Disorder Oula Miqbel Abnormal psychology Dr. Maloney May 1, 2014
According to the Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, categorizes Narcissistic personality disorder as being more prevalent in males than females, and is thought to occur in up to 6.2 percent of the general population. A 1person that has Narcissistic Personality Disorder tends to have an extensive sense of grandiosity. They have a need for admiration by their peers, they lack empathy, they have a sense of self-importance (they may even exaggerate their achievements and talents, or expects others to recognize their superiority without commensuration of their achievements), they also have a tendency to be preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, and beauty, they believe that they are "special" and “unique” and can only be understood by, or associate with, other special or high-status people, they have a false sense of entitlement, and set unreasonable expectations by exploiting, others to achieve their terminal goals, and they also believe that others are envious them; which causes them to have …show more content…
Many people diagnosed with Narcissistic personality disorder typically believe most of the same beliefs regarding themselves amongst people around them. For instance Aaron T. Beck an Arthur Freeman noted in their book In Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders that many of their patients that were diagnosed with Narcissistic Personality
According to the Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, categorizes Narcissistic personality disorder as being more prevalent in males than females, and is thought to occur in up to 6.2 percent of the general population. A 1person that has Narcissistic Personality Disorder tends to have an extensive sense of grandiosity. They have a need for admiration by their peers, they lack empathy, they have a sense of self-importance (they may even exaggerate their achievements and talents, or expects others to recognize their superiority without commensuration of their achievements), they also have a tendency to be preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, and beauty, they believe that they are "special" and “unique” and can only be understood by, or associate with, other special or high-status people, they have a false sense of entitlement, and set unreasonable expectations by exploiting, others to achieve their terminal goals, and they also believe that others are envious them; which causes them to have …show more content…
Many people diagnosed with Narcissistic personality disorder typically believe most of the same beliefs regarding themselves amongst people around them. For instance Aaron T. Beck an Arthur Freeman noted in their book In Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders that many of their patients that were diagnosed with Narcissistic Personality