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Uri Last, MA; Uri Lowental, MD; Hilel Klein, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1973;28(4):517-521.

Abstract
The borderline syndrome was reexamined recently in a new comprehensive way. We present a diagnostic reevaluation of chronic ward patients who were formerly diagnosed and treated as chronic schizophrenics. A new, meticulous clinical assessment, as well as psychological testing, suggested the borderline-syndrome diagnosis. These patients represent a special category of borderline patients not hitherto described and a characteristic etiological background was found in their familial constellation. A causal and descriptive differentiation between these patients and schizophrenics is mandatory: careful investigation of backward populations in hospitals might reveal numerous similar cases (borderlines in this special category). They call for a different, definite line of treatment.

Author Affiliations
Jerusalem, Israel

From the Eitanim Psychiatric Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Dec 4, 1972.

Reprint requests to Eitanim Psychiatric Hospital, M.P. Shimshon, 99790 Jerusalem, Israel (Mr. Last).

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