Hysterical Personality Disorder

Questioning the coherence of histrionic personality disorder: borderline and hysterical personality subtypes in adults and adolescents.

After the introduction of histrionic personality disorder (HPD), nosologists struggled to reduce its overlap with borderline personality disorder and other PDs. We studied the coherence of HPD in adults and adolescents as part of 2 larger studies. Clinicians described a random patient with personality pathology using rigorous psychometrics, including the SWAP-II (a Q-sort that captures personal...

The hysterical personality in men.

Personality disorder 3 Treatment of personality disorder

The evidence base for the eff ective treatment of personality disorders is insuffi cient. Most of the existing evidence on personality disorder is for the treatment of borderline personality disorder, but even this is limited by the small sample sizes and short follow-up in clinical trials, the wide range of core outcome measures used by studies, and poor control of coexisting psychopathology. ...

Personality disorder 2 Personality disorder across the life course

The pervasive eff ect of personality disorder is often overlooked in clinical practice, both as an important moderator of mental state and physical disorders, and as a disorder that should be recognised and managed in its own right. Contemporary research has shown that maladaptive personality (when personality traits are extreme and associated with clinical distress or psychosocial impairment) ...

Personality Dimensions of Temperament and Character in Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder and Bipolar Disorder II

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to investigate and compare personality dimensions of temperament and character in patients with borderline personality and bipolar II disorders in order to evaluate the hypothesis of “belonging of borderline personality disorder in moods disturbance spectrum.” Materials and Methods: 43 patients with borderline personality disorder, 47 patients with bi...