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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders
Editorial Note - Volume: 1, Issue: 2, 2025 (September)
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Sam Vaknin*
Department of Clinical Psychology in Commonwealth Institute of Advanced and Professional Studies, Cambridge, UK
*Correspondence to: Sam Vaknin, Department of Clinical Psychology in Commonwealth Institute of Advanced and Professional Studies, Cambridge, UK. Tel: +79884640967, E-Mail:
Received: June 16, 2025; Manuscript No: JMHP-25-7803; Editor Assigned: June 18, 2025; PreQc No: JMHP-25-7803(PQ); Reviewed: July 01, 2025; Revised: July 10, 2025; Manuscript No: JMHP-25-7803(R); Published: September 04, 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 earthly pleasures (or so he claims) in order to be able to dedicate himself fully to his calling.

Citation: Vaknin S (2025). Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders. J Ment Health Psychiatry. Vol.1 Iss.2, September (2025), pp:8-11.
Copyright: © 2025 Vaknin S . 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.