Histrionic Personality Disorder is characterized by intense emotions and a strong need to be the center of attention. The disorder is part of a group known as cluster B personality disorders, similar ...

In part 1 of this series, readers learned how Nancy's early relational dynamics encouraged her need to be the center of attention and influenced tumultuous emotions. So overwhelming were her emotional ...

Personality disorders are mental health conditions like borderline, histrionic, narcissistic, or antisocial personality disorder that cause unhealthy patterns of thought and behavior. Though they ...

Antisocial personality disorder is a type of chronic mental illness in which a person’s way of relating to others is abnormal—and destructive. Those with narcissistic personality disorder believe they ...

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Viewing expert testimony during the court case of Amber Heard and Johnny Depp led to highly prejudicial views of the mental health difficulties of both parties being formed, a new study by students at ...

A recent e-mail news release from the American Academy of Family Physicians caught my attention. A landmark survey has reported the prevalence of personality disorders in the United States. According ...

[Self-Test] Histrionic Personality Disorder Take this histrionic personality disorder test to see if you may be showing signs of the DSM-5 symptoms and accompanying features of this Cluster B ...

The defense claims Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky suffers from a condition known as histrionic personality disorder which would caused him to write letters to his alledged ...