A current view of the interface between borderline personality disorder and depression. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The recent and dramatic expansion in studies about borderline and depressive disorders is reviewed with respect to the implications about their interface. Revisiting this subject 6 years after an earlier review reveals that intervening research has altered the conclusions that should be drawn. Growing evidence from family history, comorbidity, phenomenology, psychopharmacology, biological markers, and a new domain, pathogenesis, indicates that a surprisingly weak and nonspecific relationship exists between these disorders. Implications are drawn with respect to classification, therapeutics, and defining the borderline construct.

publication date

  • August 1, 1991

Research

keywords

  • Borderline Personality Disorder
  • Depressive Disorder

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0025912105

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1176/ajp.148.8.967

PubMed ID

  • 1823531

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 148

issue

  • 8