Am J Psychiatry 1988; 145:1453-1454
Copyright © 1988 by American Psychiatric Association
A comparison of three measures for the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder [published erratum appears in Am J Psychiatry 1989 Aug;146(8):1089]
LE Angus and E Marziali
Department of Psychology, York University, Ont., Canada.
Three instruments for diagnosing borderline personality disorder were
administered to 22 outpatients. There was poor concordance among the
indexes for the identification of the disorder, and more than half of the
sample received more than two DSM-III axis II diagnoses.