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Narcissistic And Borderline Personality Disorders in the ICD-11
Opinion - Volume: 1, Issue: 1, 2025 (October)
Narcissistic And Borderline Personality Disorders in the ICD-11 Download PDF
Sam Vaknin* ORCID

Professor of Clinical Psychology in CIAPS (Commonwealth Institute of Advanced and Professional Studies), Cambridge, UK
*Correspondence to: Sam Vaknin, Professor of Clinical Psychology in CIAPS (Commonwealth Institute of Advanced and Professional Studies), Cambridge, UK, E-Mail:
Received: August 25, 2025; Manuscript No: JPPC-25-1666; Editor Assigned: August 28, 2025; PreQc No: JPPC-25-1666(PQ); Reviewed: September 01, 2025; Revised: September 05, 2025; Manuscript No: JPPC-25-1666(R); Published: October 15, 2025

ABSTRACT

The narcissistic leader fosters and encourages a personality cult with all the hallmarks of an institutional religion: priesthood, rites, rituals, temples, worship, catechism, mythology. The leader is this religion's ascetic saint. He monastically denies himself earthlypleasures (or so he claims) in order to be able to dedicate himself fully to his calling. There is no diagnosis of BPD in the ICD-11 in anyway, shape, or form. The "Borderline Pattern Specifier" in ICD-11 is reminiscent of Kernberg's "Borderline Personality Organization" and Sperry's "Borderline Personality Style".

Citation: Vaknin S (2025). Narcissistic And Borderline Personality Disorders in the ICD-11. J. Psychiatr. Psychol. Sci. Vol.1 Iss.1, October (2025), pp:26-33.
Copyright: © 2025 Sam Vaknin. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.