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Histrionic Personality Disorder is a personality disorder characterized by overly reactive and intensely expressed or overly dramatic behavior, proneness to exaggeration, emotional excitability, and disturbances in interpersonal relationships.
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Sarah Albdery
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Is histrionic behavior synonymous with histrionic Personality Disorder ?
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  • 10 Aug 2022
I am working on the study of the fake behavior of kindergarten students; And I want to know is it the same as histrionic personality disorder? Because I have a problem with the Arabic sources, as for the foreign sources, they all talk about hysterical personality disorder.
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  • 16 Aug 2022
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conceptually in children it is not possible to make the diagnosis of histrionic personality disorder, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5 of the APA it is required to be an adult to integrate the diagnoses of personality disorders, in children some behaviors are transitory and part of the normal development.
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Divya R.
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Does personality disorders have any role in an individual watching fantasy-Sci fiction animation movies& series?
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  • 28 Dec 2019
science fiction, fantacy, animation series and movies are watched by children and a specific group of adults. does it signify any relationship with the personality type/ personality of the adult watching it?
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  • 11 Apr 2021
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In my opinion, this is too far-reaching thesis. Science fiction novels, short stories, movies and series have a lot of fans. Are there studies that confirm that fans of science fiction novels, short stories, movies and series have significantly more people than the general population who exhibit personality disorders or other mental health conditions? I have not encountered the results of scientific research that could confirm the occurrence of this type of correlation.
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Dariusz Prokopowicz
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Mandy Alexander
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Does anyone know about the treatment of histrionic PD?
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  • 7 Nov 2015
If anyone knows of some good articles on the treatment of Histrionic Personality Disorder, please post them here, or just the titles. The majority of the ones I've found are from the 70s and they refer to it as "hysterical personality." Thank you!
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  • 20 Nov 2015
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Hi Mandy,
The following resources may be of interest to you:
  • The Personality Disorders : A New Look at the Developmental Self and Object Relations Approach: Theory - Diagnosis - Treatment by James F. Masterson
  • Hysterical Personality Style and Histrionic Personality Disorder by Mardi Jon Horowitz. 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3330451/
http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1996-98056-000
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/B%3AJOCP.0000004502.55597.81#/page-1
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Emilia Soroko
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What is in your opinion the best self-report measure of histrionic and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder?
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  • 11 Jan 2014
I am looking for the questionnaires with good psychometric parameters, which: 1) maybe used in clinical or non-clinical populations; 2) may be based on categorical or dimensional models of personality disorders.
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  • 22 Jan 2014
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Since you specify those two personality disorders, I'm guessing that you want to test certain psychodynamic formulations (see, for example, Storr's book Neurotic Styles, or Mardi Horowitz's work on short-term dynamic psychotherapy of stress response syndromes). Lazare et al. (1966) developed a simple checklist measuring these two personality styles (along with an "oral" style). A version of this known as the Basic Character Inventory (Svenn Torgersen, 1980?) has been used in a number of studies over the years. I don't have a copy, but one of the researchers who has used it might be able to help.
Sid Blatt's Depressive Experiences Questionnaire (DEQ) gets at a similar distinction (here termed "anaclitic" vs. "introjective" depression), as does Beck's distinction between "sociotropy" and "autonomy" (the Personal Styles Questionnaire, I think?). The Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP) is another promising direction. Some of the literature on the DEQ, IIP, and Personal Styles Questionnaire was reviewed by Mattias Desmet in a 2007 dissertation: http://www.psychoanalysis.ugent.be/pages/nl/artikels/artikels%20Mattias%20Desmet/Doctoraat%20Mattias%20Desmet.pdf
I agree with an earlier commentator that the MCMI-III might work, though it is very strongly linked to the DSM criteria. So might the Anxiety and Repression scales of the MMPI-2, though they are totally unlinked with the DSM. (I'm not sure how closely you want to adhere to the DSM here, as opposed to underlying psychodynamics.)
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