PERSONALITY DISORDERS AND PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS.

Personality disorders are often perceived as pervasive, inflexible, persistent patterns of experiences and behaviors that may contribute to underperformance in different fields such as social, occupational, and work-related. The "successful psychopath" it's a topic that gained attention recently, for this reason I looked for studies to verify whether it's a reality or just a theory. Among the personality disorders, antisocial, paranoid and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder showed the highest rate of negative results in the professional field. Among these individuals there was also a higher rate of axis I pathology. Regarding psychopathy's different layouts , the manipulative and deceitful style of the narcissist tends to be useful , narcissists showing the highest marked indicators of successful careers, often with satisfying incomes , socio-economic positions, leading jobs and better than average life conditions. The contemporary psychopath can be easily found having a white-collar job, his immoral behavior being hidden out of the sight of his co-workers, or simply ignored by them due to their lack of knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]