Hysterical Personality Style and Histrionic Personality Disorder

296 Pages·1991·15.919 MB·English

by  Mardi J. Horowitz

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HYSTERICAL
PERSONALITY STYLE
AND THE
HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY
DISORDER
COMMENTARY
“This is one of those few volumes that has the immediate impact
of improving one’s clinical understanding.”
—Allen Frances, M.D.
“Hysterical Personality and the Histrionic Personality Disorder
provides a creative and jargon-free approach to these disorders.
Mardi Horowitz has a clear and original approach to clinical
complexity that will allow clinicians to rework their formulations of
even their most familiar patients in fresh and helpful directions.”
—George E. Vaillant, m.p.
“This is a comprehensive, theoretical, and practical presentation of
the subject with emphasis on the clinical and technical handling of
the particular facets of the hysterical personality style and dynam-
ics. It is a major contribution to understanding and treatment of the
‘spectrum of hysterical phenomena, and required reading for all
mental health practitioners.”
—Leon Salzman, M.D.
“[This is] clear, well written, easily understandable, and compre-
hensive in scope. . . . It is a compendium of our knowledge of
hysteria and the hysterical personality.”
—Edward Adelson, m.p.
“Hysteria has outlived its obituaries, as Sir Aubrey Lewis pre-
dicted, and is alive and well and living in the University of
California. [This book's] authors, mostly analysts at that university,
define hysterical personality broadly, combining description (the
APA definition), dynamics (repression and denial), and cognitive
style (following Shapiro’s view that hysterical personalities have a
global perceptual manner and poor memory).”
—I. M. Ingram, m.p.
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HYSTERICAL
PERSONALITY STYLE
AND THE
HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY
DISORDER
Revised Edition
edited by ‘
MARDI J. HOROWITZ, m.p.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hysterical personality style and the histrionic personality disorder /
edited by Mardi J. Horowitz.—Rev. ed.
p. cm.
Rev. ed. of: Hysterical personality. c1977.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87668-546-7
1. Hysteria. 2. Personality disorders. I. Horowitz, Mardi Jon,
1934— . II. Hysterical personality.
_ [DNLM: 1. Histrionic Personality Disorder. WM 173 H9995]
RC532.H97 1991
616.85'24—dc20
DNLM/DLC
for Library of Congress 91-4552
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