American Psychiatry Association – Nine-point checklist for NPD
• Subjects displaying five of these traits are considered medically impaired to some degree and are classified as having narcissistic personality disorder:
1) Lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others.
2) Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her.
3) Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes.
4) Has a grandiose sense of self-importance.
5) Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited power, success, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love.
6) Believes that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people.
7) Requires excessive admiration.
8) Has a sense of entitlement, unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations.
American Psychiatry Association – Nine-point checklist for NPD
• Subjects displaying five of these traits are considered medically impaired to some degree and are classified as having narcissistic personality disorder:
1) Lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others.
2) Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her.
3) Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes.
4) Has a grandiose sense of self-importance.
5) Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited power, success, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love.
6) Believes that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people.
7) Requires excessive admiration.
8) Has a sense of entitlement, unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations.
9) Is inter personally exploitative.