MethodsWe conducted two studies to investigate the relationships between mindreading capacity,symptomatic subjective distress and narcissistic personality. In the first study (N = 246), wecompared mindreading capacities and symptomatic distress in three outpatient samples:narcissistic patients (NPD); patients with other Personality Disorders (PD); patients withoutPD. In the second study (N = 1357), we explored the relationships between symptomaticdistress, mindreading and specific NPD criteria.