[ABSTRACT] The depressive personality disorder and the dysthymia both are constructs in controversy.¿are different ones or they have a great overlapping?¿which is the relationship between chronic depression and the personality?. Beginning with a revisión in literature about depressive personality, partial date of prospective study are presented: outpatient sample of depressive patients, their comorbidity with Axis I and II disorders and dimensional differentiation of depressive personality.El