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
• Finnish: huomionhakuinen persoonallisuushäiriö, huomionhakuinen persoonallisuus
• French: trouble de la personnalité histrionique m
• German: histrionische Persönlichkeitsstörung f
• Spanish: trastorno histriónico de la personalidad m
• Turkish: histriyonik kişilik bozukluğu (tr)
• Vietnamese: rối loạn nhân cách kịch tính

See also

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