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New Fathers with Narcissistic Personality Disorders: When Dad Becomes Too Self-Absorbed

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Prevalence estimates for narcissistic personality disorder, based on the DSM-4 definition, range anywhere between 0% and 6.2% in community samples. Of those, it appears that there are also gender-related diagnostic differences between personality disorders. For instance, of those diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder, about 50–75% were identified to be male. An earlier paper by Phillipson and colleagues published in 1985 aimed to investigate the gender bias in diagnosis and etiological explanation of narcissistic personality disorder. In this paper, the researchers found that men are more likely to display feelings of grandiosity and extreme self-centredness. Female narcissists appear to see romantic partners as part of their self and ego, while males typically used their female love partners as self-esteem boosts, as Michael did in his own life.

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Misri, S.K. (2018). New Fathers with Narcissistic Personality Disorders: When Dad Becomes Too Self-Absorbed. In: Paternal Postnatal Psychiatric Illnesses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68249-5_9

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