histrionic personality disorder

histrionic personality disorder

English

Noun

histrionic personality disorder (countable and uncountable, plural histrionic personality disorders)

1. (psychology) A personality disorder characterized largely by exaggerated emotions, and inappropriate attention-seeking and seductive behavior typically caused by undue amounts of trauma and related stress during childhood.

   Patients with histrionic personality disorder are sometimes accused of being attention whores.

Synonyms

• HPD (abbreviation)

Translations

Translations

Catalan: trastorn histriònic de la personalitat m Danish: histrionisk personlighedsforstyrrelse, histrionisk personlighedsstruktur

Spanish: trastorno histriónico de la personalidad m

See also

• borderline personality disorder
• antisocial personality disorder
• narcissistic personality disorder