The 6 Histrionic Subtypes Explained | Ep. 63

🎬In this episode of the Personality Couch Podcast, we (licensed clinical psychologists Doc Bok and Doc Fish) explore the 6 subtypes of histrionic personality, highlighting their behaviors, underlying motivations, and how they manifest in social and personal contexts. We start by investigating the mild category: the gregariously sociable with narcissistic features, and the appeasingly sociable with dependent and compulsive features. At the moderate level, we discuss the theatrically pleasuring subtype with masochistic features and the infantile pleasuring subtype with borderline features. We end by comparing and contrasting the two disorder level subtypes: the disingenuous histrionic with antisocial features and the tempestuous histrionic with negativistic and borderline features.

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Chapters: 00:00 Into & Definition of Histrionic 01:27 Brief Overview of Millon’s Personality Theory 01:37 Mild Subtypes | Normal Level 04:21 The Gregariously Sociable (Narcissistic Features) 04:46 Comparing & Contrasting Narcissistic &Histrionic Personality 07:01 The Appeasingly Sociable (Dependent & Compulsive Features) 09:11 Enneagram 2 Overlap? 09:21 Histrionic vs Dependent Personality 09:40 Comparing & Contrasting Mild Subtypes 10:11 Moderate Subtypes | Problematic Level 11:13 Theatrically Pleasuring (Masochistic Features) 12:09 Millon’s “Quintessential Histrionic” 13:41 Gender Dynamics in Histrionic vs Narcissistic Personality 14:13 Infantile Pleasuring (Borderline Features) 16:25 Comparing & Contrasting Moderate Subtypes 17:00 Severe Subtypes | Disorder Level 17:43 Disingenuous Histrionic (Antisocial Features) 19:55 Wait…Is This Type a Psychopath?! 22:20 Tempestuous Histrionic (Negativistic, Borderline Features) 24:22 Comparing & Contrasting the Severe Subtypes 24:54 Our Psychodynamic Thoughts 28:15 Summary & Ending

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