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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) |
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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