From ‘Psychological Medicine’, September 2023.
Jean-Paul Selten, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, the Netherlands

“Although certain contemporaneous leaders show signs of hubris and pose a great danger, the hubris syndrome does not yet figure in our classification systems. The purpose of this paper is to examine several aspects of its validity, including clinical description, laboratory study, and exclusion of other disorders.

“…there is sufficient reason to further examine the validity of the hubris syndrome and to consider it for inclusion in our classification systems.”

Read the full paper here.