histrionic personality disorder
outdated concept about alleged psychiatric patients, which attributes to them exaggerated and impulsive behavior, the purpose of which is supposedly to attract attention and which supposedly makes its debut in adolescence
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Summary
histrionic personality disorder is a class of disease[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of class of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,538 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: mental disorder[3]
- Subclass of: personality disorder[4], disease[5], cluster B personality disorders[6]
- Commons category: Histrionic personality disorder[7]
- Topic's main category: Category:Histrionic personality disorder[8]
- Possible treatment: psychotherapy[9]
- ICD-9-CM: 301.5[10], 301.50[11], 301.59[12]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C92634[13]
- Short name: HPD[14], TPH[15], THP[16], HPS[17], PPH[18], HPF[19], TPS[20]
- Different from: hysteria[21], borderline personality disorder[22], narcissistic personality disorder[23]
- Health specialty: psychiatry[24], clinical psychology[25]
- Studied by: psychiatry[26], psychology[27]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_334[28], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:334[29], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0012077[30]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[31], WikiProject Psychiatry[32], WikiProject Psychology[33]
Why It Matters
histrionic personality disorder has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] It is known by 84 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]