Hi LizzieVale, welcome to Psych Central!
I think the reason we hear more about "Borderline Personality Disorder" than "borderline personality organization" is because that's what the DSM has been calling it for years. I thought I remembered the other term from somewhere; it turns out to be Kernberg's. I found an article about it (and him)
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Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is one of the most controversial diagnoses in psychology today. Since it was first introduced in the DSM, psychologists and psychiatrists have been trying to give the somewhat amorphous concepts behind BPD a concrete form. Kernberg's explication of what he calls Borderline Personality Organization is the most general, while Gunderson, though a psychoanalyst, is considered by many to have taken the most scientific approach to defining BPD. The Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines and the DIB-Revised were developed from research done by Gunderson, Kolb, and Zanarini. Finally, there is the "official" DSM-IV definition.
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And that's just the first paragraph.