Histrionic Personality Disorder

Histrionic personality disorder (HPD) is defined by the American Psychiatric Association as a personality disorder characterized by a pattern of excessive attention-seeking behaviors, usually beginning in early childhood, including inappropriate seduction and an excessive desire for approval.

 

Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: W094
Diagnosis: Histrionic Personality Disorder
US Patients: 2-3%
World Patients :
Sex Ratio: M; W3
Age Onset: Age 15
Brain Area: high noreprinephrine, leading to anxiety-proneness, dependency, high sociability;
Symptoms: excessive attention-seeking and desire for approval; high-functioning, manipulative social skills; with failures, depressed
Progression: must be center of attention; marital instability due to seeking attention from others besides spouse
Causes: 67% hereditary
Medications: antidepressants
Therapies: The concept is historical and Freudian.

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  • The Predictive Role of Personality Disorders and Personality Traits in Death Anxiety
    by Waqar Husain on October 31, 2024

    The current study investigates the interplay between personality traits, personality disorders, and death anxiety in a sample of 2331 participants (49% males; 51% females) across two phases. The Death Anxiety Scale, the Psychosocial Personality Inventory, and the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire were utilized. The findings revealed significant predictive relationships between personality disorders and death anxiety. Positive correlations were observed between death anxiety and nine...

  • Sex differences in insomnia and hypersomnia complaints during major depressive episode: Results from a national sample
    by Pierre A Geoffroy on October 1, 2024

    CONCLUSIONS: These findings provide insights into the complex relationship between sleep and depression in men and women, highlighting the need for personalized interventions.

  • Association between pathogenic beliefs and personality disorders
    by Varit Jintanachote on September 17, 2024

    CONCLUSIONS: The profound impact of pathogenic beliefs intertwined with personality disorders, particularly influenced by childhood trauma and evident in Cluster B and schizotypal disorders, underscores the critical need for targeted psychotherapeutic interventions. Addressing these beliefs directly is key to enhancing treatment efficacy and patient outcomes. Pathogenic belief should be elicited in clinical settings regardless of personality disorder, especially those who experienced depression....

  • An essay on the Charcot and Richer hysteria: from charcoal drawings to cell phones
    by Marlon Wycliff Caeira on August 31, 2024

    Hysteria, previously also known as the disease of the womb, has moved from being a woman's illness through the medieval times' stigma of demonic possession, to the modern concept of a functional neurological disorder. Interestingly to the present assay, Charcot (1825-1893) and Richer (1849-1933) described, in their 1887 work Les Démoniaques dans l'art, by means of iconography, semiological aspects of the so-called Grande Attaque Hystérique, which resembles features of psychogenic nonepileptic...