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Sandusky's histrionic personality disorder defense

Media Outlet: 

"The Michael Smerconish Show"

The histrionic personality disorder that is being used by the defense in the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse trial might not even be included in the revised edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. "You can get the histrionics diagnosis without the sexual piece," says Frank Farley, a professor in Temple's College of Education. "It's that you're supposed to meet five out eight criteria. So the sexual criteria might not even be met in some of these cases."