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Histrionic Personality Disorder MeSH Descriptor Data 2025
A personality disorder characterized by overly reactive and intensely expressed or overly dramatic behavior, proneness to exaggeration, emotional excitability, and disturbances in interpersonal relationships.
Entry Version
HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DIS
Entry Term(s)
Hysterical Personality
Personality Disorder, Histrionic
Personality, Hysterical
NLM Classification #
WM 190
Previous Indexing
Hysteria (1966-1968)
Public MeSH Note
81; was HYSTERICAL PERSONALITY 1969-80
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A personality disorder characterized by overly reactive and intensely expressed or overly dramatic behavior, proneness to exaggeration, emotional excitability, and disturbances in interpersonal relationships.