ABSTRACT
The people we have designated as hysterical and depressive personalities are predominantly extraverted, and share an obvious concern with their relationships with other people. Hysterics seem principally concerned with obtaining attention, whilst depressives are more preoccupied with gaining approval. Both kinds of person have difficulty in managing aggressive impulses towards others. Hysterics tend to criticise the objects of their affections for not living up to their imagined ideals; whilst depressives turn their criticisms against themselves. Both are dependent, and fear being abandoned by those upon whom their happiness seems to depend, and therefore spend most of their time in psychotherapy discussing their interpersonal relationships.
