The author takes as his starting point the theoretical developments on character and its disturbances. In the central chapters, he presents an articulation between the fundamental concepts and a set of clinical manifestations. In the final section, it presents a series of proposals for the approach to characteropathies.

Pathological character traits may occupy different places at the beginning of treatment. In some cases they are the reason for consultation. The situation is generally as follows: the environment (family, social, work) of the person who consults set some kind of limit, warned him that he will no longer tolerate his "way of being". If he does not change, he puts at risk something that he is not willing to lose, be it a bond, a position, a job. So, the consultation is not because of the characteropathy itself – which is synthesized in the usual phrase "I am like this" – but because of its possible consequences. In most cases, characteropathic traits are neither the only nor the main problem that leads a subject to consult; Most commonly, they make a place for themselves in the course of the analysis.

There are few texts on the subject of characteropathies and there are many fewer that contain proposals that guide the direction of their treatment. Therefore, this book constitutes a significant contribution to an important and complex problem that has remained in a marginal place within Psychoanalysis.