Hysteroid-dysphoria

Flistrionic personality disorder is similar to the syndrome that Liebowitz and Klein ( 259) have termed hysteroid dysphoria or atypical depression. MAOIs have proven to be very helpful in this condition and these data are reviewed in Chapter 7. As noted earlier, Rifkin et al. (242) also investigated the effects of antidepressants in patients with emotionally unstable personalities, a syndrome characterized by excitability and ineffectiveness when confronted with minor stress. This syndrome is primarily found in female adolescents whose moods consist of the following ... 

Liebowitz MR, Klein DF. Interrelationship of hysteroid dysphoria and borderline personality disorder. Psychiatr Clin North Am 1981 4 67-68. 

Atypical depression, or hysteroid-dysphoria as it is sometimes called, is a sub-type of major depression characterized by the following symptoms ... 

Liebowitz, M. R., and D. F. Klein. 1979. Hysteroid-dysphoria. Psychiatric Clinics of North America 2 555-75. 

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