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GALVEZ HERRER, Macarena; MINGOTE ADAN, José Carlos  y  MORENO JIMENEZ, Bernardo. Patients who suffer from a personality disorder at work. Med. segur. trab. [online]. 2010, vol.56, n.220, pp.226-247. ISSN 1989-7790.

In the working place the relationships between workers are shown, each individual's subjectivities are expressed, and the decisions made are influenced by personal styles, leadership styles, etc. Everything at work is "personal". Individuals with personality disorders are high consumers of medical care due to symptoms with no clear diagnosis, the disorder on numerous occasions converge with another types of psychiatric alterations and it is involved in social complications. For general, psychiatric and labour medicine, most of the times, these are people difficult to manage. Following a line of work in which we analyzed the interaction between mental health and work, the objective of this document is to present the different personality disorders reviewing their characteristics, identification and diagnostic criteria, analyzing their possible expression in the working place, and pointing out some of the main lines for their assumption and management, both from a labour and clinic standpoint.

Palabras clave : Personality disease; work; labour risk; interpersonal conflict.

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