Malignant 
                 Self-love 
                 Narcissism Revisited 
                             
                         1st EDITION 
                    10th Revised Impression 
                             
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                      Sam Vaknin 
                  The Author is NOT a Mental Health Professional. 
                 "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" is based on 
             correspondence since 1996 with hundreds of people diagnosed with 
           Narcissistic and Antisocial Personality Disorders (narcissists and psychopaths) 
            and with thousands of family members, friends, therapists, and colleagues. 
                             
                             
                             
                             
                       Editing and Design: 
                      Lidija Rangelovska 
                             
                             
                             
                Narcissus Publications, Skopje 2015 
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
        Warning and Disclaimer 
        The contents of this book are not meant to substitute for professional help 
        and counselling. The readers are discouraged from using it for diagnostic or 
        therapeutic  ends.  The  diagnosis  and  treatment  of  Narcissistic  Personality 
        Disorder can only be done by professionals specifically trained and qualified 
        to  do  so  –  which  the  author  is  not.  The  author  is  NOT  a  mental  health 
        professional. 
         
         
         
         
         
        © 1999-2015 Copyright Lidija Rangelovska 
         
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        reproduced in any manner without written permission from: 
        Lidija Rangelovska – write to: malignantselflove@gmail.com 
         
         
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        Print ISBN: 978-80-238-3384-3 
        
        
        
        
                This book is dedicated to Lidija, 
                my wife, my life, and my muse, 
                who made this tome possible 
                 and much more besides. 
        
        
        
        
        
                  History of the Book 
        
       In April 1997, we uploaded to the Web a free Internet edition of Sam's 
       book "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited", written in 1995. It is 
       still available here: http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com. 
        It  generated  an  outpouring  of  anguish  and  relief  from  both 
       narcissists and victims of abuse, who now could put a label to their 
       misery and suffering. Thus, we followed up with the first print edition 
       of the book in 1999. 
        At the time, with the exception of a handful of scholars, no one had 
       even heard of pathological  narcissism. Sam had to come up with a 
       whole  new  vocabulary  to  describe  the  pernicious  disorder  and  its 
       insidious  effects.  He  coined  phrases  such  as  Somatic  and  Cerebral 
       Narcissist,  narcissistic  abuse,  No  Contact,  devalued  and  discarded, 
       cold  empathy,  and  dozens  of  others.  Sometimes,  he  had  to  imbue 
       moribund  phrases  from  the  1930s  and  1970s  with  new  meaning: 
       Narcissistic Supply and False Self are two examples of many. 
        20 years later, narcissism is a cultural meme, a buzzword, and a 
       leading topic of study in academe. Yet, it is precisely this popularity 
       that threatens to obscure the true nature of Narcissistic Personality 
       Disorder. 
        This tenth, definitive, revised printing aims to remind everyone not 
       to bandy narcissism about as a mere invective. It provides a coherent 
       and rigorous framework for the discussion of pathological narcissism 
       in all its manifestations, individual and social. 
        
                              Lidija Rangelovska 
                              Skopje, March 2015