PSYD32H3 Lecture Notes - Attention Seeking, Theatricality, Cognitive Therapy
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Pen state coach: sandusky trial; example where the media suggest histrionic personality disorder. Diagnostic criteria: often mixed up with bpd because of attention seeking behaviour. Prevalance: has high prevelance, apa estimates 2-3% and much higher in clinical settings. Historical perspective: shares a history with axis i disorders, conversion disorder: sensory or motor deficit due to psychological causes that mimics neurological disorder. However this is not true since men too can act this way. Comorbidity: hpd and somatization & more history: estimates of patients with somatization who also have hpd range from 7. 4% to 81. 8%. Etiology: neurocognitive findings, global congnitive-perceptual style (shapiro, 1965). There was also an inverse relationship was found for women suggests that histrionic traits may be maladptive for men. *not significant: ruocco & swirsky-sacchetti (2007): histrionic was associated with better function in neurological performance. Extraversion is often associated with good things, and in this study in motor functioning,
