title: The diagnostic interview for narcissistic patients.
abstract: This report describes the content and development of a semistructured interview, the Diagnostic Interview for Narcissism. The interview evaluates 33 features of pathological narcissism covering five domains of function: grandiosity, interpersonal relations, reactiveness, affects and moods, and social and moral adaptation. Its utility is established by reliability studies and by developing a scoring system from a sample of 24 prototypic narcissistic patients who were compared with 58 others. Because narcissistic personality disorder is a widely used diagnosis whose inclusion in DSM-III-R was without reference to an empirical base, this instrument offers a method for doing much-needed research.
authors.affiliation: Psychosocial Research Program, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Mass 02178.
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Gunderson
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ronningstam
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bodkin
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D009289:Narcissism; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012107:Research Design; D009626:Terminology as Topic