DEAN GEISTLINGER

I will summarize myself in a hundred words or less. I will start by saying that I have a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerated achievements and talents, expect to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements); I am preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love; I believe that i am "special" and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions); I require excessive admiration; I have a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with my expectations; I am interpersonally exploitive, i.e., take advantage of others to achieve my own ends; I lack empathy: am unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others; am often envious of others or believe that others are envious of me; I shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes.-D. Geistlinger