PSYCH 130 Study Guide - Final Guide: Histrionic Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Attention Seeking
11 May 2018
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a. Histrionic personality disorder: excessive emotionally and attention seeking
i. Symptoms:
1. Presence of five or more of the following signs of excessive
emotionality and attention seeking from early adulthood across
many contexts
a. Strong need to be the center of attention
b. Inappropriate sexually seductive behavior
c. Rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotions
d. Use of physical appearance to draw attention to self
e. Speech that is excessively impressionistic and lacking in
detail
f. Exaggerated, theatrical emotional expression
g. Overly suggestible
h. Misreads relationships as more intimate than they are
b. Narcissistic: Grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy
i. Symptoms
1. Presence of five or more of the following signs of grandiosity,
need for admiration, and lack of empathy from early adulthood
across many contexts:
a. Gradiose ie of oe’s iportae
b. Preoupatio ith oe’s suess, rilliae, eauty
c. Belief that one is special and can be understood only by
other high-status people
d. Extreme need for admiration
e. Strong sense of entitlement
f. Tendency to exploit others
g. Lack of empathy
h. Envious of others
i. Arrogant behavior or attitude
ii. Etiology:
1. Paretig: parets ho are oerly idulget foster hildre’s
belief that they are special, and that behavioral expressions of
their specialness will be tolerated by others.
a. Those who experiencing overindulgence from the parents
2. Self-psyhology: Heiz Kohut’s to ooks: The aalysis of the self
and The Restoration of the self
a. Starts from the clinical observation that the person with
narcissistic personality disorder projects self-importance,
self-absorption, and fantasies of limitless success on the
surface.
b. Experience shame more frequently
3. Social-cognitive model
a. Carolyn Morf and Frederick Rhodewalt (2001) built around
2 ideas
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