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The borderline personality disorder is three times more common in women diagnosed than men. This disorder is typical for women or is it something different? In this article, Jill Lobbestael discusses activant previous studies focused activant on the prevention of BPD in women and men. Jill Lobbestael is a lecturer at the Department of Clinical Psychological Science at Maastricht University. Currently she is doing for nine months of research at Florida State University in the United States as a result of a grant from the Niels Stensen Foundation.
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Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is one of the most complex personality disorders by the large range and the rapid fluctuation of symptoms that go with it. The term BPS literally refers to a mental disorder which is situated on the border between neurosis and psychosis (Stern, 1983). The core of BPD is best described as instability. This instability manifests itself in relationships with others, self-esteem, feeling and impulsivity (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). Crises, hospitalizations, self-mutilation, suicide attempts and tantrums are common in BPD patients, who therefore activant are known for their complex treatment. The occurrence (prevalence) of BPD among the population is estimated at 2%. Furthermore, 10% of the therapeutic suffering patients and 20% of psychiatric patients with this disorder. activant Prevalence according to the DSM A typical case of borderline will almost invariably describe a woman. That's no coincidence. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), the basic book of all mental disorders, suggests that this disorder is mainly diagnosed in women, with a female-manverhouding of up to 3: 1. This means that the diagnosis is often asked three times more women than men. Compared activant with other mental illnesses is the difference very pronounced, which has led to much speculation. So it was said that this is logically explained by the fact that women are emotionally unstable and rather turn their anger against activant themselves. In the eighties, the (mostly male) DSM Task Force, the steering committee that determines the content activant of the DSM, blamed the borderline diagnosis was created for women who have a strong feminine stereotype met mentally sick explain (Kaplan, 1983 ). But is it really true that many more women than men suffer from BPD? Whether there are systematic biases or biassen, systematic errors, responsible for this skewed gender distribution? Let's put the most important scientific studies on this subject activant in a row. Population studies A solid answer to the question whether BPD is more common in women than in men must come from large epidemiological studies that are representative of the entire population. Unfortunately, these scarce. Two large-scale studies (Lenzenweger activant et al., 2007;. Torgersen et al, 2001) found no gender differences activant among people who met the BPD diagnosis. Other studies have found a higher BPD prevalence among women (Maier et al., 1992), and concluded that just like men more often meet the BPD diagnosis (Carter et al, 1999;. Coid et al., 2006). An alternative way to examine the actual gender distribution of BPD, is to determine the invariance of BPD criteria. If the criteria are invariant, this means that each person has an equal chance to have BPD, irrespective of gender. The Moor and her colleagues activant (2009) examined the responses of a large group of respondents to a BPS questionnaire and indeed found that BPD questionnaire was invariant. Another study in which a semi-structured interview was used, confirmed this finding (Jane et al., 2007), although Bogg et al. (2005) again found only partial evidence for BPS-invariance. Although the findings of this large-scale studies are not entirely consistent, the majority seems to suggest that the supposed female domination of the BPD diagnosis is not as strong activant as assumed by the DSM and many clinicians. Diagnostic bias above