The current trial of Jerry Sandusky, the former football coach at Penn State University accused of pedophilia with a number of young children, has recently brought histrionic personality disorder into ...

While NPD and HPD do share some characteristics, the full extent of symptoms are very different. Treatment for both often includes professional support and medications. Our personalities define a ...

Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD) affects approximately 2 percent of the population. 1 While it is diagnosed across genders, females are diagnosed with this disorder more often. Some of the “tells ...

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) categorizes histrionic personality disorder (HPD) and narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) into the same cluster of ...