A study carried out by Board and Fritzon at the University of Surrey in England found that narcissistic personality disorders are actually more common in high-level executives than in mentally disordered criminal offenders at the high-security Broadmoor Hospital.
People with narcissistic personality disorder may be highly ambitious, confident, driven, and able to exploit people and situations to maximum advantage. They may be adept at charming and manipulating others, and thus adept at building and exercising business relationships.
Board and Fritzon described the executives with a personality disorder as ‘successful psychopaths’ and the criminal offenders as ‘unsuccessful psychopaths,' and it may be that highly successful people and disturbed psychopaths have more in common than first meets the eye. As the psychologist and philosopher William James put it more than a hundred years ago, "When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce… in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries." Or sadly we may get the alternative. Some are inbetin be. Just a thought.
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