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BMC Psychiatry BioMed Central Research article Open Access Substance abusers personality disorders and staff members emotional reactions Birgitte Thylstrup* and Morten Hesse Address: Aarhus University, Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research, Købmagergade 26E, 1150 Copenhagen C, Denmark Email: Birgitte Thylstrup* - bt@crf.au.dk; Morten Hesse - mh@crf.au.dk * Corresponding author Published: 10 April 2008 Received: 27 September 2007 Accepted: 10 April 2008 BMC Psychiatry 2008, 8:21 doi:10.1186/1471-244X-8-21 This article is available from: /1471-244X/8/21 © 2008 Thylstrup and Hesse; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Previous research has indicated that aggressive behaviour and DSM-IV cluster B personality disorders (PD) may be associated with professionals emotional reactions to clients, and that cluster C PD may be associated with positive emotional reactions. Methods: Staff members recruited from workshops completed a self-report inventory of emotional reactions to patients, the Feeling Word Checklist-58, and substance abusers completed a self-report of DSM-IV personality disorder, the DSM-IV and ICD-10 Personality Disorder Questionnaire.