Antisocial personality co-morbid with borderline personality disorder: A pathological expression of androgyny?
Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI 10.1002/pmh.1279 Commentary RICHARD C. HOWARD, Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham, UK Psychological androgyny The concept of psychological androgyny refers to the co-occurrence in the same individual, regardless of his or her biological sex, of a comparable degree of socially desirable masculine (‘instrumental’) and feminine (‘expressive’) qualities. It has attracted considerable attention from social, personality, and developmental psychologists since the early 1970s when Bem (1974) first formulated the idea that an individual’s…