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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society of Medicine2023

Borderline personality disorder: a spurious condition unsupported by science that should be abandoned.

Roger Mulder, Peter Tyrer

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Personality disorder diagnoses in UK Autistic people: Evidence from a matched cohort study.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2026
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  14. Why better interpretation of science leads to better care.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Roger MulderDepartment of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch, 4 Oxford Terrace, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand.
Peter TyrerImperial College, Hammersmith Hospital, London, W12 0NN, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0358-1459

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Borderline Personality DisorderHumans

Identifiers

PMID37042739
PMCPMC10164266

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