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Abstract
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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- Hysterical Personality
- Personality Disorder, Histrionic
- Personality, Hysterical
- Disorder, Histrionic Personality
- Disorders, Histrionic Personality
- Histrionic Personality Disorders
- Hysterical Personalities
- Personalities, Hysterical
- Personality Disorders, Histrionic
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.
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81; was HYSTERICAL PERSONALITY 1969-80
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- Hysteria (1966-1968)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Histrionic Personality Disorder. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D006677. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D006677
- Histrionic Personality Disorder. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histrionic_personality_disorder
- Histrionic Personality Disorder. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q845787