CAS PS 371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Hogwarts Staff, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder
25 Sep 2018
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A pervasive patterns of excessive emotionality and attention seeking, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by ve (or more) of the following: 2: displays rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotions. Dsm-4 gave a nice example: example tell me what your mother was like oh, she was a beautiful person . Lack of concrete information: shows self-dramatization, theatricality and exaggerated expression of emotions. 7. overly-dramatic presentation of the self. is suggestible, easily in uenced by others or circumstances. They are very in uenced by their surroundings: considers relationships to be more intimate than they actually are. Common diagnosis in females we touched on this: it has to do with bias, and sex-role stereotyping. You do not see sex-differences when taking objective tests. A while ago there was a nding that among the female relatives of men with antisocial personality disorder there was a risk of histrionic personality disorder.
