Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Brian Mark Blackwell: diminished responsibility owing to narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) diagnosis.

Narcissists are fully aware of their behaviors, but not of their motivations.

But they have different valence, impaired reality testing, and alloplastic defenses. They often misjudge whether their actions are morally right or wrong.

Still, they should be held accountable. They are not insane in the legal sense (though they probably are from the psychiatric POV).

Self-awareness

self-focus

state self-focus (self-focused attention)

self-awareness theory

introspection

introspectionism

structuralism (structural psychology)

Insanity Defense: NGRI- Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity

Mens rea (criminal intent)

criminal responsibility

diminished capacity

actus reus

insanity

non compos mentis

irresistible impulse rule

diminished responsibility (limited responsibility)

M’Naghten rule (right-and-wrong test; right-or-wrong test)

Durham rule (Durham decision; Durham test; product rule)

American Law Institute Model Penal Code insanity test (American Law Institute Guidelines (ALI Guidelines); Brawner decision; Brawner rule)

Insanity Defense Reform Act (IDRA)

partial insanity

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