The relationship between borderline personality disorder and anxiety disorders.
Eleven "pure" borderlines, ten borderlines with depression, 16 "pure" depressives, and 31 normal subjects were compared on a number of standardized inventories of anxiety. While patient groups experienced more anxiety of all types than did normals, borderlines did not emerge as more anxious than other patient groups. Qualitative differences in the anxiety experienced by borderlines and nonborderlines are discussed.
Benjamin
J
J
Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor.
Silk
K R
KR
Lohr
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NE
Westen
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D000328:Adult; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D010200:Panic; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000523:psychology