MALIGNANT NARCISSISM IS A PSYCHOLOGICAL SYNDROME COMPRISING AN EXTREME MIX OF UNHEALTHY NARCISSISM, ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER, AGGRESSION, AND SADISM; A "MENTAL ILLNESS" REPRESENTING "THE QUINTESSENCE OF EVIL", "THE MOST SEVERE PATHOLOGY AND THE ROOT OF THE MOST VICIOUS DESTRUCTIVENESS AND INHUMANITY", A "REGRESSIVE ESCAPE FROM FRUSTRATION BY DISTORTION AND DENIAL OF REALITY", "A DISTURBING FORM OF NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY WHERE GRANDIOSITY IS BUILT AROUND AGGRESSION AND THE DESTRUCTIVE ASPECTS OF THE SELF BECOME IDEALIZED".