To the Editor: Beatson and Rao’s article1 appeared in the MJA Open supplement subtitled “A guide to management in primary care”. Despite acknowledging that it “can be difficult to distinguish between [borderline personality disorder] and [major depressive disorder]”, the authors offer no specific guidance for general practitioners on how to do this.
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- 1. Beatson JA, Rao S. Depression and borderline personality disorder. MJA Open 2012; 1 Suppl 4: 24-27. <MJA full text>
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- 3. Hickie IB. Primary care psychiatry is not specialist psychiatry in general practice. Med J Aust 1999; 170: 171-173. <MJA full text>
- 4. Livesley WJ, Jackson DN. Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology – Basic Questionnaire technical manual. Port Huron, Mich: Sigma Assessment Systems Inc, 2009.
- 5. Clark LA, Livesley WJ, Schroeder ML, Irish SL. Convergence of two systems for assessing specific traits of personality disorder. Psychol Assess 1996; 8: 294-303.
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