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Originally Posted by nailer
Aren't these criteria obsolete?
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Beats me, I've been retired from the business since the DSM-IV. I was never much for the social pressure put on the docs that inhabit these DSM committees. Don't want to hurt anybody's widdow feewings calling them "borderline" or "histrionic".
The diagnostic criteria 301.81 fits the personality like a Bottega Veneta glove. If it's obsolete it's because the profession has rolled over and died to the social engineers. It was already killed pretty dead by the lawyers anyway.
But out there in a room 1 on 1, you can still pick out a 301.81 in the first 15 minutes, even though you have to call them something else to squeeze your session fee out of the insurance company.
But seriously folks. It's still in there although I'm not sure it has the 301.81 code anymore. And they've adjusted the language of the diagnostic criteria to make a decent narcissist who's worked hard on his sick, twisted and wrong character now sound like a mildly self-absorbed annoyance. What's a dedicated narcissist to do about this nonsense?