title: [Hysterical personality disorder].
abstract: The hysteric personality disorder is characterized by: 1. an intense need for affection; it is a child-like need, seeking protection and affection, making the patient subject to suggestibility and dependence, along with an erotic behaviour which is in reality associated to fear of sexuality; 2. an exaggerated and rapidly shifting expression of emotion leading to unstable, theatrical and histrionic expression of emotions giving an impression of shallowness and lack of authenticity; 3. a highly imaginative thinking pattern with flight of reality and tendency to dreaming, mythomania, memory reconstruction.
authors.affiliation: Clinique de psychiatrie et de psychologie médicale, Hôpital Pasteur, Nice.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Darcourt
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006677:Histrionic Personality Disorder / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans
vernacular_title: La personnalité hystérique.