Dr. Gregory House Narcissistics

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Dr. Gregory House Case Study
Dr. Gregory House, M.D. is the Head of the Diagnostic Medicine team at Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital located in New Jersey. Dr. Gregory House, who is often referred to as just House, can be characterized as a narcissistic, cynical, and ill-tempered misanthropist. However, despite all these characteristics, House continually proves to be a natural medical genius that seems to never fail at diagnosing a medical mystery. House’s routine use of Vicodin, due to a previous yet chronic leg injury, eventually develops into an addiction to opioids. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; DSM–5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013) this addiction can be classified as opioid use

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