PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Histrionic Personality Disorder, Psychological Manipulation, Personality Disorder
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Histrionic personality disorder characterized by exaggerated attention-seeking behaviour, sexually inappropriate, seductive or provocative behaviour, tendency to be easily influenced by others, perceive relationship to be more intimate than they really are. Charming, charismatic, promiscuous, deceitful: f histrionic need for m and vulnerability in order to induce in lavish love and attention upon him oh darling, i need you so much . Abandon offspring opportunistically, former mating partners/close kin stuck with job of raising kids that she abandoned. Seek to control partner through emotional manipulation. Bpd characterized by pattern of unstable interpersonal relationships where significant others are alternatively, unrealistically, idealized then just as unrealistically trashed. Engage in reckless risky behaviour (binge eating/drug use, gambling, unprotected sex), frantic and angry with even brief periods of separation, serious attachment to parent as a child. Harbour great deal of misery and destruction of self and others around them. Ns does not have agenda, not looking for perfection; not looking for anything.