Abstract

The essential feature of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) 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..

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  • ARTICLE INFOCitation: Saeed Shoja Shafti. Malignant Narcissism: Concealed Side of Psychopathy. Biomed J Sci & Tech Res 22(1)-2019. BJSTR. MS.ID.003686. Keywords: Narcissistic Personality Disorder; Antisocial Personality Disorder; Narcissism; Psychopathy; Sociopathy; Forensic Psychiatry; Aggression

  • The essential feature of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) 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

  • While in ‘Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders’, narcissistic personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder have been classified as two distinct personality illnesses in cluster B of personality disorders, more central similarity than dissimilarity is evident between them

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ARTICLE INFO

Citation: Saeed Shoja Shafti. Malignant Narcissism: Concealed Side of Psychopathy. Biomed J Sci & Tech Res 22(1)-2019. BJSTR. MS.ID.003686. Keywords: Narcissistic Personality Disorder; Antisocial Personality Disorder; Narcissism; Psychopathy; Sociopathy; Forensic Psychiatry; Aggression

Introduction
Requires excessive admiration
Differential Diagnosis
Narcissism and Criminal Behavior
Conclusion
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