2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
The main feature of the hysterical personality is egocentrism that knows no boundaries, an insatiable thirst for attention, admiration, admiration, surprise, sympathy, even hatred, but not indifference, just not the prospect of remaining invisible. All other qualities of the hysterical personality grow from this trait.
The key features of this personal style include (according to Linjardi et al.):
- Patterns of constitution and maturation: sociophilia.
- Central tension: power over others.
- Central affects: fear, shame, guilt (due to competition).
- Characteristic beliefs about the self: "There is something missing in me that must be overcompensated."
- Typical beliefs about others: "Others will not love me unless I do something that gets their attention."
- Central methods of defense: repression, regression, sexualization, tantrums, overcompensation.
Hysteroid traits often appear from an early age. These children cannot stand if other children are praised in their presence, if others get more attention. An urgent need is to attract eyes, listen to praise, and receive enthusiastic responses. Such children with great enthusiasm read poetry in front of the audience, sing, dance, demonstrate their various talents.
With the onset of adolescence, hysterical features sharpen. Teenagers strive to stand out in all available ways: with the help of clothes, manner of speech and behavior, passion for exotic ideas. Adolescents with hysterical personal styles may find themselves in relationships that tend to be unstable, rapidly changing, and chaotic. Adolescents can behave sexually provocatively and engage in promiscuous sex. Their sexual behavior appears to be inappropriate for their age and may appear in situations where it is inappropriate.
Adolescents can become involved in relationships in which they are emotionally and / or physically abused and put themselves in danger unnecessarily. In relationships, they can quickly become attached to people and develop feelings and expectations that are completely unjustified by the context of the relationship and their history, as well as become involved in love triangles. Often, adolescents fantasize about ideal love, in which they play the role of a perfect lover, for whose sake unthinkable heroic deeds are carried out. As frequent reasons that push a teenager to suicide, he himself calls "unsuccessful love". However, this is only a romantic invention, aimed at giving your personality an exceptional charm. The real reason is wounded pride, loss of attention, fear of falling in the eyes of others. A blow to egocentrism is especially painful if the object of love chooses another partner for a romantic relationship. All this could have been more easily tolerated if the drama had not been played out in front of the audience, in front of which the hysterical teenager plays out.
Emotions in adolescents are volatile and unpredictable, often exaggerated, contrived and dramatic, with a tendency to spiral out of control. The biggest problem with these adolescents is that they do not know who they really are, and are not at all bothered by the inconsistency of their feelings and beliefs.
Literature:
Lichko A. Types of character accentuations and psychopathies in adolescents, 1999
Lindjardi V. Guidelines for Psychoanalytic Diagnostics, 2019
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