Defining disorders with permeable borders: you say bipolar, I say borderline!

Affiliations

• ¹ Mood Assessment and Classification (MAC) Committee, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
• ² Private Practice in Psychiatry and Division of Psychiatry, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia.
• ³ Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago - Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand.
• ⁴ Academic Department of Psychiatry, Northern Sydney Local Health District, St Leonards, NSW, Australia.
• ⁵ Sydney Medical School, Northern, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
• ⁶ CADE Clinic, Royal North Shore Hospital, Northern Sydney Local Health District, St Leonards, NSW, Australia.
• ⁷ School of Medicine, IMPACT Strategic Research Centre, Deakin University, Barwon Health, Geelong, Vic., Australia.
• ⁸ Department of Psychiatry, Orygen Research Centre, Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic., Australia.
• ⁹ Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
• ¹⁰ Discipline of Psychiatry, Sydney Medical School, Westmead Clinical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
• ¹¹ Mood Disorders Unit, Northside Clinic, Greenwich, NSW, Australia.
• ¹² ECT Services, Northside Group Hospitals, Greenwich, NSW, Australia.
• ¹³ School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
• ¹⁴ Black Dog Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia.