# Malignant Self-Love *Malignant Self-Love: Narcissism Revisited* (1999) by [[Sam Vaknin]] is a sprawling, self-published compendium on narcissistic personality written from the perspective of a self-identified narcissist. Influential in shaping online narcissism communities and vocabulary, it is a popular-discourse artifact rather than a clinical text — useful to the vault as a source of how narcissism is *framed* in public conversation. > [!note] Stub > Minimum-viable page created to resolve inbound wikilinks. Expand with its influence on online narcissism communities.