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Assessment of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)

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In “Assessment of Narcissistic Personality Disorder,” Germain focuses on the practical nature of observing narcissistic behaviors in the workplace. After outlining how NPD has been defined in different versions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the chapter navigates through common clinical measures of NPD and their limitations. Germain concludes by presenting legal concerns about assessing personality disorders in the workplace and examines narcissistic individuals’ ability to fake psychometric tests .

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Germain, ML. (2018). Assessment of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). In: Narcissism at Work. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60330-8_3

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