Table 1.

Proportion of participants (N = 21) currently fulfilling each of the criteria for borderline personality disorder according to the International Personality Disorder Examination at pretreatment.

Borderline personality disorder criteria	Percentage of participants (n)
1. Frantic efforts to avoid abandonment	47.6% (10)
2. Unstable, intense interpersonal relationships	71.4% (15)
3. Identity disturbance	52.4% (11)
4. Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self- damaging	38.1% (8)
5. Recurrent suicidal behaviour, threats, gestures or self-mutilating behaviour	71.4% (15)
6. Affective instability	90.5% (19)
7. Chronic feeling of emptiness	66.7% (14)
8. Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger	42.9% (9)
9. Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms	71.4% (15)