Am J Psychiatry 1985; 142:855-858
Copyright © 1985 by American Psychiatric Association
Comparison of three systems for diagnosing borderline personality disorder
HF Nelson, H Tennen, A Tasman, M Borton, M Kubeck and M Stone
The authors assessed three systems for diagnosing borderline personality
disorder: DSM-III, the checklist criteria of Spitzer et al., and the
Diagnostic Interview for Borderline Patients. In an inpatient sample of 51
patients, 43 (84%) met the criteria of at least one of these systems;
analyses were carried out on 28 of these patients. Twelve (43%) of these 28
patients met criteria for all three systems, seven (25%) for two systems,
and nine (32%) for only one system. Kernberg's structural criteria showed
reasonable overlap with the other diagnostic criteria. Affective disorders
were prominent across diagnostic measures in this sample of borderline
patients.
