title: Antisocial and borderline personality disorders revisited.
abstract: Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) and borderline personality disorder (BPD) have an overlap in both symptoms and risk factors, suggesting that they might reflect the same form of psychopathology, shaped by gender. However other lines of evidence point to the presence of partly unique, albeit overlapping, trait dimensions, specifically affective instability which differentiates BPD from ASPD. Our conclusion is that ASPD and BPD are separate disorders.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. joel.paris@mcgill.ca
authors.forename: Joel
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Paris
authors.forename: Marie-Pierre
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Chenard-Poirier
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Biskin
mesh_terms: D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D006801:Humans; D012737:Sex Factors