Le perfectionnisme. Approche cognitive et comportementale

Perfectionism is a quality so long as it enables performance, productivity and that it is experienced in a positive way. It may well induce psychiatric disorders if it proves major and inhibiting. Considered as a personality feature or even as an unconditional cognitive schema by most authors; perfectionism is an current issue in psychiatry. However, perfectionism is also a sociopsychological subject as it reflects perfectionist standards to which the most conformist of us all will adhere. It is a supportive factor or a resistant factor in the treatment of many psychiatric disorders: obsessive compulsive disorders, social phobia, depression, anorexia nervosa, certain addictions, etc. The article presents a clear clinical description of perfectionism and some therapeutic suggestions.