title: [Whose borderline is it? Reconsidering diagnosing borderline personality].
abstract: The present article critically discusses diagnosing borderline personality, demonstrating ideas raised with a treated case. In contrast to routine diagnoses made by psychiatrists according to common diagnosing systems (such as the American DSM or the WHO's ICD), we wonder whether this diagnosis reflects a medico-social construct, which is associated to the female status in masculine (or even patriarch) society, and probably associated even to the context of a woman diagnosed by a psychiatric system. In the context of critically viewing aetiological hypotheses to borderline personality (presented in our former article as a personality constellated around complex and prolonged trauma) in this article we suggest viewing borderline behaviours and symptoms as manifestations of coping and survival of a woman-victim in abusing surroundings.
authors.affiliation: Western Galilee Mental Health Clinics, Fligelman Psychiatric Hospital, Acre, Israel. tsvigil@bezeqint.net
authors.forename: Tsvi E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Gil
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012727:Sex Characteristics