# Nancy Grace on (Larry King live with) Anderson Cooper

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from the wiki article on [Narcissistic personality disorder](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder)

DSM IV-TR criteria  
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as **indicated by five (or more) of the following:**

Has a grandiose sense of self-importance  
Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty or ideal love (megalomania)  
Believes they are “special” and can only be understood by, or should associate with, people (or institutions) who are also “special” or of high status  
Requires excessive admiration  
Has a sense of entitlement  
Is interpersonally exploitative  
Lacks empathy  
Is often envious of others or believes others are envious of him or her  
Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes

I am not a psychiatrist. I am also not a pleurologist, but if someone appeared on TV with a sucking chest wound…

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