Histrionic Personality Disorder
| Definition: |
A personality disorder characterized by overly reactive and intensely expressed or overly dramatic behavior, proneness to exaggeration, emotional excitability, and disturbances in interpersonal relationships. |
| Previously Indexed: |
Hysteria (1966-1968) |
Histrionic Personality Disorder Categories.
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Hysteria - Historical term for a chronic, but fluctuating, disorder beginning in early life and characterized by recurrent and multiple somatic complaints not apparently due to physical illness. This diagnosis is not used in contemporary practice. |
Histrionic Personality Disorder Definitions and Terms
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