Clinical features of the borderline personality disorder

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

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