Posted on 12/02/2010 8:31:16 AM PST by toma29
The world's foremost experts on psychiatry have decided to eliminate narcissistic personality disorder from the 2013 edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
When asked by reporters why they decided not to include the disorder any longer, members of the panel cited the existence of two case studies of extreme narcissism with which the Manual could never compete. So they gave up.
One is Dreams of My Father. The other is The Audacity of Hope.
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