[The diagnosis of borderline disorders: criteria and their empirical evaluation]

Until now "Borderline-Syndrom" is a controversial diagnosis especially because of many uncertainties to determine the definition. In our examination various discrimination analyses were realised on a sampling of 62 patients (32 neurotic and 30 Borderline-Patients) and 47 variables in order to get various selective combinations of variables. Useful as a screening to separate neurotic and Borderline-Patients seems to be a combination of the items "often changing partnership", "homosexually episodes" and "incrimination/disciplinary punishment" with an error rate of 6.5 per cent.