1. The validity of DSM-III borderline personality disorder. A phenomenologic, family history, treatment response, and long-term follow-up study
- Author
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Harrison G. Pope, Jeffrey M. Jonas, James I. Hudson, Bruce M. Cohen, and John G. Gunderson
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Treatment response ,Adolescent ,Long term follow up ,behavioral disciplines and activities ,Personality Disorders ,Diagnosis, Differential ,Manuals as Topic ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Borderline Personality Disorder ,mental disorders ,medicine ,Humans ,Antisocial personality ,Family history ,Psychiatry ,Borderline personality disorder ,Psychotropic Drugs ,Histrionic Personality Disorder ,Major affective disorder ,Follow up studies ,Antisocial Personality Disorder ,medicine.disease ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Cohort ,Schizophrenia ,Female ,Psychology ,Clinical psychology ,Follow-Up Studies - Abstract
To test the validity of the DSM-III diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD), we examined the phenomenology, family history, treatment response, and four-to-seven-year long-term outcome of a cohort of 33 patients meeting DSM-III criteria for BPD. We found that (1) BPD could be distinguished readily from DSM-III schizophrenia; (2) BPD did not appear to represent "borderline affective disorder," although many patients displayed BPD and major affective disorder concomitantly; and (3) BPD could not be distinguished on any of the indices from histrionic and antisocial personality disorders.
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- 1983