So, Histionic personality disorder is just another name for hysteria.

I just want to get that out in the front because I actually didn't know that until kind of recently.

And I feel stupid for not knowing that, but I always sort of thought hysteria was some ancient thing that was in psychology, but there was this other thing called Histionic personality disorder.

So just want to let everyone know.

Histionic personality disorder is just another name for hysteria.

Histionic is like the adjective version of hysteria.

Instead of saying hysterical personality disorder, they just decided

to use histrionic personality disorder, probably because the word hysteria or hysterical is associated

with other things now in the English

language. But anyway, so now that you know that. I just want to say up front

here that hysteria and hist Histionic Personality Disorder is extremely important to our field.

I don't know if everyone knows this. It's perhaps the most important diagnosis in the history of psychotherapy.

One could even say that psychotherapy was founded on the treatment of hysteria.

For instance, Freud's first patients were hysterical or histrionic. The history of hysteria goes all the

way back to ancient Egypt and ancient Greece, which is crazy to think about. And many of these ancient ideas can still be seen in the current thinking

about hysteria. For thousands of years, hysteria has been the cornerstone of psychotherapy and

psychology, but

hisionic personality disorder and hysteria are falling out of favor

within the field of psychotherapy. So much so that it was almost left out of the newest diagnostic manual in 2013,

the DSM-5.

Well, today I'm going to talk about why it was almost left out of the DSM-5 and why it will probably

be left out of the next DSM, even though it has a rich history within our field.

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