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Histrionic Personality Disorder

Medical 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.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition 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 Medical Definitions and Terms

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