title: Confirmation of the borderline personality within a psychodynamic framework.
abstract: Using a psychodynamic framework and an underlying structural configuration, the borderline patient is described. Statistical methods are then used to differentiate this group from both a schizophrenic and a character disorder group of patients. The borderline group emerges as a clear-cut entity characterized by (1) the lack of an integrated self concept, and (2) a particular ego structure consisting of a specific pattern of superficial ego strengths and underlying ego weaknesses.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics; D011936:Reality Testing; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012649:Self Concept