Self-concept and mood: a comparative study between depressed patients with and without borderline personality disorder.

Within the framework of Self-Structure Theory, this study investigated the relationship between depressed mood and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) on self and others descriptions, with a special emphasis on the self-structure's valence, that is, its affective, negative and/or positive content. Seventeen DSM-III-R unipolar depressed patients with associated BPD (DSM-III-R axis II) and twelve unipolar depressed patients without BPD were compared to eighteen non-psychiatric controls on four measures of evaluation and of affective discrepancy of descriptions of self and others. Subjects were administered the grid repertory technique.

[Disorder of gender identity in a child with asymmetric gonadal dysgenesis with complex karyotype abnormality].

Background: Gender identity is influenced by genetic and hormonal factors and also by the sex of rearing.

Case Report: A child was born with ambiguous genitalia. Male sex assignment was made.