The essential
feature of narcissistic personality disorder is a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy that begins by early adulthood and is present in a variety of contexts.
Today we'll cover
the features of narcissistic personality disorder, plus 10 giveaways that you're dealing with a narcissist.
Not exact matches
Some
of the proposed «new symptoms» are symptom
features of other established forms
of pathology (absence
of ambivalence is «splitting» and lack
of guilt is an absence
of empathy, both symptoms are characteristic
of narcissistic and borderline
personality pathology), and some
of the «new symptoms» are simply bizarre (the «independent thinker» symptom).
Failure
of parental empathy is a characterological
feature of both
narcissistic and borderline
personalities.
Both
personalities have an underlying «borderline» core
of primal self - inadequacy and fear
of abandonment (i.e., attachment expectations for self - and other - in - relationship), and both have
narcissistic features of complete self - absorption.
However, the relationship dynamics involved with the pathogenic parenting
of «parental alienation» processes are exceedingly similar across families, because they originate in the same type
of parental psychopathology (a
narcissistic personality disorder with borderline
features that is decompensating into persecutory beliefs regarding the targeted / rejected parent's abuse potential relative to the child).
Both the
narcissistic and borderline
personality display spitting as a characteristic
feature of their
personalities.