1. BORDERLINE, DEPRESSIVE, AND SCHIZOPHRENIC DISCRIMINATION BY MMPI.
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Gandolfo, R. L., Templer, D. I., Cappelletty, G. C., and Cannon, W. C.
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BORDERLINE personality disorder , *PEOPLE with schizophrenia , *MINNESOTA Multiphasic Personality Inventory , *PSYCHIATRIC hospital patients , *DISCRIMINANT analysis , *PERSONALITY disorders - Abstract
This study intends to differentiate among borderline personality disorder (BPD), schizophrenic, and depressed patients on the basis of their MMPI profiles. MMPI profiles of 237 psychiatric inpatient were selected on the basis of their primary DSM-III admission diagnoses. Analysis of MMPI mean scores and discriminant function analysis supports previous literature in describing borderline patients as having a broad spectrum of psycho-pathology typified by an attitude of alienation and rebelliousness, atypical thought content and/or process, and eccentric behavior. Schizophrenic patients are differentiated from BPD patients by the presence of thought disorder and psychotic-like manifestations. The depressed patients did not show the aforementioned extreme characteristics of the other two groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1991
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