{"title":"Two kinds of borderline concepts. Conceptual and empirical agreement between DSM-III, DIB, and Kernberg.","authors":"R Sandell","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The definitional criteria of the 3 systems (DSM-III, DIB and Kernberg) have been compared. While there is rather weak agreement between the criteria of DIB and those of DSM-III, there is no agreement at all between Kernberg's criteria and those of the other 2 systems. When the 3 systems are compared in terms of empirical diagnosis, the agreement between DSM-III and DIB is moderate and clearly stronger than that between Kernberg and either DSM-III or DIB. In terms of sensitivity, the Kernberg borderline comprises the DSM-III and DIB borderlines as subsets. The findings are consistent with the idea that Kernberg's borderline concept is an instance of a severity or maturity level construct, while DSM-III and DIB are characterological constructs, orthogonally related to the level construct.</p>","PeriodicalId":77773,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric developments","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Psychiatric developments","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The definitional criteria of the 3 systems (DSM-III, DIB and Kernberg) have been compared. While there is rather weak agreement between the criteria of DIB and those of DSM-III, there is no agreement at all between Kernberg's criteria and those of the other 2 systems. When the 3 systems are compared in terms of empirical diagnosis, the agreement between DSM-III and DIB is moderate and clearly stronger than that between Kernberg and either DSM-III or DIB. In terms of sensitivity, the Kernberg borderline comprises the DSM-III and DIB borderlines as subsets. The findings are consistent with the idea that Kernberg's borderline concept is an instance of a severity or maturity level construct, while DSM-III and DIB are characterological constructs, orthogonally related to the level construct.