The Everything Guide to Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Professional, reassuring advice for coping with the disorder - at work, at home, and in your family (Everything® Series)

by Cynthia Lechan Goodman

Narcissism is often described as an extraordinary fascination with oneself, or as having excessive vanity. This is very different from healthy self-esteem. Healthy self-esteem is a kind of realistic self-approval and self-respect, which also is part of the sense of mutual cooperation and respect in interactions with others.