Historical roots of histrionic personality disorder
Front Psychol. 2015; 6: 1463. Published online 2015 Sep 25. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01463 PMCID: PMC4585318 PMID: 26441812 Filipa Novais,1,* Andreia Araújo,2 and Paula Godinho1 Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Disclaimer Abstract Histrionic Personality Disorder is one of the most ambiguous diagnostic categories in psychiatry. Hysteria is a classical term that includes a wide variety of psychopathological states. Ancient Egyptians and Greeks blamed a displaced womb, for many women’s afflictions. Several researchers from the 18th and…
