Ep 61: Histrionic Personality Disorder | The 8 DSM Criteria
🎬In this episode of the Personality Couch Podcast, we (licensed clinical psychologists Doc Bok and Doc Fish) explore the 8 criteria of histrionic personality disorder in the DSM. We discuss their tendency to engage in attention-seeking and seductive behaviors, coming across as emotionally shallow. Histrionic personalities also focus heavily on their appearance and use fluffy, impressionistic speech. Others perceive them as dramatic and suggestible - easily believing what others say regardless of the facts. They also tend to overestimate their connections to others, believing relationships are deeper than they actually are.
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Additional Podcast References
- McWilliams, N. (2011). Psychoanalytic diagnosis: Understanding personality structure in the clinical process (2nd ed.). Guilford Press.
- Millon, T. (2011). Disorders of personality: Introducing a DSM / ICD spectrum from normal to abnormal (3rd edition). John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Chapters
- 00:00 Introduction to Histrionic Personality Disorder
- 00:39 DSM I (1952) Histrionic Criteria
- 01:12 DSM II (1968) Histrionic Criteria
- 01:33 DSM III (1980) Histrionic Criteria
- 02:21 DSM III-R (1987) Histrionic Criteria
- 03:22 DSM IV (1994) Histrionic Criteria
- 03:35 DSM 5-TR Criteria Introduction
- 04:17 Criterion 1: Attention Seeking
- 05:27 Criterion 2: Seductive & Provocative Behavior
- 06:16 Criterion 3: Shifting & Shallow Affect
- 07:54 Criterion 4: Draws Attention Using Appearance
- 09:05 Criterion 5: Fluffy, Impressionistic Speech
- 09:59 Criterion 6: Dramatic & Theatrical
- 11:34 Criterion 7: Suggestibility
- 13:27 Criterion 8: Connection Overestimation
- 14:34 Lower Interpersonal Impairment
- 16:20 Our Thoughts
- 21:05 Summary & Ending