Fast Five Quiz: Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Stephen Soreff, MD

January 10, 2020

Personality disorders are generally grouped into three clusters. Individuals can be diagnosed with more than one personality disorder, often from the same cluster. Narcissistic personality disorder is a cluster B disorder and must be distinguished from the other conditions in that group, which include the following:

Antisocial personality disorder
Borderline personality disorder
Histrionic personality disorder

Cluster A includes paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders. Cluster C includes avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders.

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