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THE HISTRIONIC PATIENT - University Psychiatry
CHAPTER 4 THE HISTRIONIC PATIENTPI any patients have HISTRIONIC features in their makeup, and in general, HISTRIONIC patients are attractive people who add much to their sur-rounding environment through their imagination and sensitivity. Con-sciously, the HISTRIONIC PATIENT wants to be seen as an attractive, charm-ing, lively, warm, intuitive, sensitive, generous, imaginative personwho enhances the lives of others and who does not waste time on thetrivial details and mechanics of life. However, to those around them,the HISTRIONIC PATIENT can appear exhibitionistic, attention seeking, ma-nipulative, superficial, overly dramatic, given to exaggeration, easilyhurt, impulsive, inconsiderate of the feelings of others, demanding, andreadily given to scenes of tears or anger.
138 • THE PSYCHIATRIC INTERVIEW IN CLINICAL PRACTICE ally labile, intense, and overly generous constellation. A second is the manipulative, in which the interpersonal world is controlled and gratifi-
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