Extremely selfish and self-centred, people with a narcissistic personality have a grandiose view of their uniqueness, achievements, and talents and an insatiable craving for admiration and approval from others. They are exploitative to achieve their own goals and expect much more from others than they themselves are willing to give.
Personality characterized by an obsession with grandiosity, an intense need for admiration, and a lack of empathy for others.
An all-pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behaviour), need for admiration or adulation and lack of empathy, usually beginning by early adulthood and present in various contexts.
disorder characterized by grandiosity, exaggerated self of one's own importance, preoccupation with being admired, exploitation of others.
A personality disorder characterized by a persisting grandiose sense of self-importance, preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success or power, arrogant behavior, intense need for admiration, and lack of empathy for others, and sometimes exploitative behavior in efforts to achieve goals
persons with this disorder present severely overly-inflated feelings of self-worth, grandiosity, and superiority over others. Persons with narcissistic personality disorder often exploit others who fail to admire them, and are overly sensitive to criticism, judgment, and defeat.
excessive narcissism taking the form of a psychological dysfunction whereby the ego is unhealthily inflated due to identification with an Attractor, resulting in the person having an exagerated view of their own self importance, usually also associated with extreme selfishness, unreasonable expectations, and insensitivity and lack of empathy to others. Narcissistic personality disorder is a characteristic that is very prominant in the great majority of fake and abusive gurus.
characterized by conceit, boastfulness, and snobbishness. They appear self-assured, seek admiration, desire power and control over others, are impatient, arrogant, exploitive of others, use others for their own purposes (people are "tools" to narcissists), and have no true empathy for others. Narcissists have a pronounced sense of entitlement.
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.
A personality disorder characterized by excessive feelings of self-importance and entitlement, a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy. These qualities are usually defenses against a deep-seeded feeling of inferiority or of being un-loveable.
Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), a term first used by Heinz Kohut in 1971Kohut, Heinz, The Analysis of the Self, 1971, is a form of pathological narcissism acknowledged in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1980, in the edition known as DSM III-TR. Narcissistic personality disorder is characterized by extreme focus on oneself, and is a maladaptive, rigid, and persistent condition that may cause significant distress and functional impairment.