Just interesting:
Before the latest DSM:
Borderline Personality Disorder as a Female Phenotypic Expression of Psychopathy?
.results indicate that BPD and psychopathy share a significant constellation of traits in womenpotentially more so than in menand, accordingly, that the two disorders may reflect gender-differentiated phenotypic expressions of similar dispositional vulnerabilities. While we acknowledge that the two disorders are likely not identical (given different symptom clusters in BPD and psychopathy, such as self-harm vs. chronic antisociality/violence, respectively), the current findings support the idea of a BPD-variant of psychopathy in women, reminiscent of the secondary psychopathic variant validated decades ago in men (lKarpman, 1941). In view of this, our results raise questions about phenotypic heterogeneity of psychopathy across genders and have several implications for the antisocial/psychopathic and borderline personality types in the proposed DSM-5.
Borderline Personality Disorder as a Female Phenotypic Expression of Psychopathy?
http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&id=2011-13437-001
BPD & DSM
BPD & DSM | Psychology Today
Being a chick magnet, I knew that.