Jerry Sandusky's defense team says their client has something called histrionic personality disorder, a condition that they claim can explain much of their client's behavior as he faces more than 50 ...

Lawyers for Jerry Sandusky, the assistant Penn State football coach on trial for sexual assault on minors, have suggested Sandusky suffers from histrionic personality disorder, and that the disorder ...

A psychologist called to testify by actor Johnny Depp's attorneys said on Tuesday that ex-wife Amber Heard could have a personality disorder. Dr. Shannon Curry, a licensed clinical and forensic ...

Histrionic personality disorder (HPD) is a condition that is characterized by acting overly dramatic. People with HPD may have shifting, shallow emotions and use their appearance to get attention.

Here's where the problems start, though: While on the stand, Dr. Curry said that BPD is commonly "a predictive factor in women who implement violence against their partner." Then she stated that women ...

BELLEFONTE — The judge in the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse trial told jurors they cannot consider the defense theory that Jerry Sandusky has Histrionic Personality Disorder as a reason to acquit him of ...

The current trial of Jerry Sandusky, the former football coach at Penn State University accused of pedophilia with a number of young children, has recently brought histrionic personality disorder into ...

Histrionic personality disorder is characterized by constant attention-seeking, emotional overreaction, and seductive behavior. People with this condition tend to overdramatize situations, which may ...