Antisocial and borderline personality disorders: two separate diagnoses or two aspects of the same psychopathology?

J Paris

doi:10.1016/s0010-440x(97)90032-8

Antisocial and borderline personality disorders: two separate diagnoses or two aspects of the same psychopathology?

Compr Psychiatry. 1997 Jul-Aug;38(4):237-42. doi: 10.1016/s0010-440x(97)90032-8.

Author

J Paris¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, Catherine, Montreal Québec, Canada.

PMID: 9202881
DOI: 10.1016/s0010-440x(97)90032-8

Abstract

Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) and borderline personality disorder (BPD) have a number of points of overlap: in symptoms, in personality dimensions that underlie their phenomenology, in community prevalence, in risk factors, and in outcome and response to treatment. Both disorders have a common base in impulsive personality traits, but the behavioral differences between them are shaped by gender. Further research is suggested to explore the commonalities and differences between ASPD and BPD.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Affective Symptoms / physiopathology
Antisocial Personality Disorder* / classification
Antisocial Personality Disorder* / diagnosis
Antisocial Personality Disorder* / physiopathology
Borderline Personality Disorder* / classification
Borderline Personality Disorder* / diagnosis
Borderline Personality Disorder* / physiopathology
Cognition Disorders / physiopathology
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Global Health
Humans
Impulsive Behavior / physiopathology
Male
Prognosis
Risk Factors
Sex Factors