[Non-psychotic impairment and neurotic impairment (thoughts on the place of this pathology in the long-term outcome of civil servants)].

UNLABELLED

The purpose of the authors was an attempt to draw a frame of non psychotic patients in a invalidating process.

METHOD

they analysed a population of 144 employees from the city of Paris who had been put out of work for a long period of time on the basis of psychiatric impairement criteria were sociological, professional, life events and medical.

RESULTS

the profile of this type of patient is likely to be a women rather than a man, she is in her forties, comes from a below average background, has been working for about fifteen years; the illness has been going on for some five years has been off work for two years, two out of three cases the reason is depressive pathology. The authors concluded neurosis invalidated more through secondary depression than through neurosis mechanisms.