NPD

Elsa F. Ronningstam, Identifying and Understanding the Narcissistic Personality (Oxford & New York: Oxford U. Press, 2005) ("The workplace may present extraordinary challenges for the narcissistic individual as it usually requires a capacity to understand and attend to more or less explicit rules for and patterns of interpersonal interactions. The team belongingness among peer colleagues, the hierarchical interaction vis-a-vis supervisors, managers, and bosses/leaders and the relationship with partners outside the workplace can contribute to difficult internal experiences and interpersonal conflicts for narcissistic people. Power, competition, sub-group belongingness, informal hierarchies of status and popularity, gossip, and so on, can trigger unmanageable rage and/or insecurity. Despite exceptional skills and knowledge, it is not uncommon that these interpersonal conditions create such overwhelming problems for the narcissistic person, often expressed in an inability or unwillingness to collaborate and follow rules for communication and exchange, rage outbursts, ignoring or deliberately overstepping rules and boundaries, efforts to dominate and take control, or to form special or influential relationships. The person may struggle with experiences of being outside, excluded, or isolated, or with feelings of insecurity, envy, or resentment toward more senior or competent people, or with issues related to specialness and advantages." Id. at 138. Most of us have at least a touch of narcissism. Another reason for trying to live life with greater mindfulness.).