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  • HISTRIONIC - Pattern of theatrical or overtly dramatic behavior - Signs • Discomfort when the client isn't the center of attention • Self-dramatization and exaggerated emotions • uses physical appearance, sexually seductive and provocative behavior • Excessively impressionistic speech lacking in detail (labile emotions) - Problems in dependence & helplessness - More frequent in women HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY D / O

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  • HISTRIONIC (adj): overly dramatic; deliberately affected.

    The Mighty Quinn Media Machine 2008

  • I would just like to observe that using ALL CAPS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE makes your argument much more PERSUASIVE because you seem SO MUCH MORE REASONABLE and NOT AT ALL HISTRIONIC.yankeeQuote

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Treasury Inc.: The Shadow National Debt 2009

  • INTELLECTUAL, MUSICAL, AND HISTRIONIC PRODIGY 1898-1976

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

  • INTELLECTUAL, MUSICAL, AND HISTRIONIC PRODIGY 1898-1976

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

  • INTELLECTUAL, MUSICAL, AND HISTRIONIC PRODIGY 1898-1976

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

  • Tigers wife is showing all symptoms of PERSONALITY DISORDER - one of the commonest causes of divorce - probably HPD (HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DISORDER?

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  • Tigers wife is showing all symptoms of PERSONALITY DISORDER - one of the commonest causes of divorce - probably HPD (HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DISORDER?

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

  • Tigers wife is showing all symptoms of PERSONALITY DISORDER - one of the commonest causes of divorce - probably HPD (HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DISORDER?

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

  • Tigers wife is showing all symptoms of PERSONALITY DISORDER - one of the commonest causes of divorce - probably HPD (HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DISORDER?

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

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