Clinical features of the borderline personality disorder

• DOI: 10.1176/ajp.137.2.165
• Publication Date: 2014-12-17T19:03:27Z
• Authors: J. Christopher Perry; Gerald L. Klerman
• Keywords: Adult; Ego; Male; Personality Tests; Personality Disorders; Schizotypal Personality Disorder; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Humans; Female; Social Adjustment; Defense Mechanisms

The authors compared 18 patients diagnosed as having borderline personality disorder with 102 orther diagnoses in a psychiatric emergency service. They found that 81 of 129 items obtained from the literature on were significantly more characteristic than other diagnoses. When these included Borderline Personality Scale they distinguished those not psychotic but angry, demanding, and difficult to interview; specific histories, interpersonal relationships, defenses, judgments functioning also prominent characteristics patients. On basis findings studies, maintain actually had disorder.