histrionic personality disorder

English

Noun

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

(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

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