Editing Histrionic personality disorder (section)

=== Authoritarian parenting ===
There may be an association between having one or more parents with authoritarian or distant attitudes, and developing this disorder later in life.<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1016/B978-0-323-85837-3.00001-7 |chapter=Personality disorders |title=Global Emergency of Mental Disorders |date=2021 |last1=Moini |first1=Jahangir |last2=Koenitzer |first2=Justin |last3=Logalbo |first3=Anthony |pages=303–328 |isbn=978-0-323-85837-3 }}</ref>
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[[Psychoanalysis|Psychoanalytic]] theories incriminate [[Authoritarian Parent|authoritarian]] or distant attitudes by one (mainly the mother) or both parents, along with conditional love based on expectations the child can never fully meet.<ref name="WebMD2" /> Using psychoanalysis, [[Freud]] believed that lustfulness was a projection of the patient's lack of ability to love unconditionally and develop cognitively to maturity, and that such patients were overall emotionally shallow.<ref name="Pfohl2">Pfohl, B. (1995). Histrionic personality disorder. The DSM IV Personality Disorders, 173–192.</ref> He believed the reason for being unable to love could have resulted from a traumatic experience, such as the death of a close relative during childhood or divorce of one's parents, which gave the wrong impression of committed relationships. Exposure to one or multiple traumatic occurrences of a close friend or family member's leaving (via abandonment or mortality) could make the person unable to form true and affectionate attachments towards other people.<ref name="Nickert2">Nickert, J. (n.d.) Histrionic Personality Disorder.</ref>