Narcissistic Personality Disorder Diagnostic Criteria

Please see our separate note on Treatment, Mental Disorders and Basic Science for important caveats on the role and definition of diagnostic criteria.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder According to the ICD-10

The following information is reproduced verbatim from the ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders, World Health Organization, Geneva, 1992.

F60.8 Narcissistic Personality Disorder

While the ICD-10 does not specifically define the characteristics of this personality disorder, it is classified in the category "Other Specific Personality Disorders".

ICD-10 states that Narcissistic Personality Disorder is "a personality disorder that fits none of the specific rubrics F60.0-F60.7". That is, this personality disorder does not meet the diagnostic criteria for any of the following:

• F60.0 Paranoid Personality Disorder
• F60.1 Schizoid Personality Disorder
• F60.2 Dissocial (Antisocial) Personality Disorder
• F60.3 Emotionally unstable (borderline) Personality Disorder
• F60.4 Histrionic Personality Disorder
• F60.5 Anankastic (Obsessive-Compulsive) Personality Disorder
• F60.6 Anxious (Avoidant) Personality Disorder
• F60.7 Dependent Personality Disorder

Includes:

• eccentric, "haltlose" type, immature, narcisstic, passive-aggressive, and psychoneurotic personality disorder

Diagnostic Guidelines

Please see the separate set of notes which apply to all personality disorders in the ICD-10 system of classification.