Histrionic personality disorder (HPD) is defined by the American Psychiatric Association as a personality disorder characterized by a pattern of excessive attention-seeking emotions, usually beginning in early adulthood, including inappropriately seductive behavior and an excessive need for approval. Histrionic people are lively, dramatic, vivacio...
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(from the article `personality disorder`) ...solitary to an abnormal degree. Persons with explosive personality disorder exhibit extreme emotional instability characterized by explosive ... People with this disorder are overly dramatic and intensely expressive, egocentric, highly reactive, and excitable. The characteristic behaviour ......
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An individual who is dramatic, engaging, self-centreed and attention seeking. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...
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a personality disorder characterized by dramatic, attention-seeking, overly reactive, and intensely expressed behavior. Individuals with this disorder are prone to emotional display, such as angry outbursts and tantrums. They are often perceived by others as shallow and fickle; in their relationships they may be superfici...
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. an enduring and pervasive pattern of behavior in adulthood characterized by excessive, dramatic, and shallow emotionality; attention-seeking; and demands for approval and reassurance, beginning in early childhood and present in a variety of contexts. 2. a DSM diagnosis that is established when the specified criteria are m...
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