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Narcissistic

Learning about Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Traits

  • Has beliefs about being special and more important than others.

  • Has fantasies about power, success and being attractive to others.

  • Does not understand the needs and feelings of others.

  • Stretches the truth about achievements or talents.

  • Expects constant praise and wants to be admired.

  • Feels superior to others and brags about it.

  • Expects favors and advantages without a good reason.

  • Often takes advantage of others.

  • Is jealous of others or believes that others are jealous of them.

Film Examples

  1. Black Swan is a 2010 psychological thriller about a ballet dancer, played by Natalie Portman, who discovers a dark side to herself as she struggles to please her overbearing narcissitic mother, played by Barbara Hershey.

  2. Mommie Dearest is a 1981 biography of Hollywood Actress Joan Crawford, played by Faye Dunaway, who, according to the account in the movie, exhibited Obsessive Compulsive, Borderline and Narcissistic Traits.

  3. Schindler's List is a 1993 drama which chronicles the suffering of Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II and Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who rescued over a thousand of them by employing them in his factories. The movie includes a striking portrayal of Amon Göth, a narcissistic SS officer and camp director, played by Ralph Fiennes.

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