This page has moved. Click here to view. Histrionic personality disorder Histrionic personality disorder is the grandchild of the diagnosis of hysteria.
Hysterical people are typically imaginative, often with well-developed emotional intuition.
They tend to look at the world in over impressionistic terms rather than focusing on details, so they tend to be headline readers. They gravitate toward activities that don t necessarily involve concentration for long hours on facts and details, but they are often very creative and colorful. Histrionic personality disorder is really hysteria run amok. It s hysterical personality traits carried to an extreme that is histrionic personality disorder, historyonic personality disorder, histronic personality disorder Histrionic individuals can be quite colorful and outgoing. They are highly excitable.