Narcissistic Personality Disorder

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Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a common and often disabling syndrome which is, unfortunately, resistant to treatment. This paper discusses the various schools of thought with regard to the causes of NPD. It also looks at various high-profile people who were diagnosed with NPD, such as Jim Jones, Adolph Hitler and Charles Manson.

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"While it is not common for the disorder to reach such magnitude as it did in the case of Jim Jones, more of the population displays it than one might think. Schwartz and Smith note that the lifetime prevalence rate of NPD ranges from 0.5 to 1.0 percent; in clinical settings, that arises to approximately 2 to 16 percent. Moreover, she adds, almost 75 percent of those diagnosed with NPD are male, and that males who have NPD "tend to display more exploitative characteristics than females, as well as maintain a deeper sense of entitlement than females who have NPD" (Schwartz and Smith, 2002). Substance abuse is commonly associated with the disorder, and is also more common among men, she adds; Jones was said to be suffering from multiple drug addictions (Robinson, 2003)."

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