Narcissistic Personality Disorder has a lot of stigma around it, so giving the diagnosis can be a touchy process. Diana Diamond explains how she goes about introducing the personality disorder diagnosis to a patient.

It turns out one of the reasons people don't want to hear they have NPD is because the term "narcissist" is used so often to describe Trump.

We interviewed Diana Diamond about narcissism and its prevalence in our society today, all the way from healthy traits to Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD).


Diana Diamond is an expert clinician who makes use of TransferenceFocused Psychotherapy in her practice treating NPD and BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder).

Check out our interviews of Otto Kernberg and Frank Yeomans for lots more related material: Kernberg:    • Dr. Otto Kernberg  
Yeomans:    • Dr. Frank Yeomans  

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