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MMPI Performance in Chronic Medical Illness: the use of Computer-Derived Interpretations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Alan M. Goldstein  and
Marvin Reznikoff
Alan M. Goldstein
Affiliation:
John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, 315 Park Avenue South, New York, N.Y. 10010
Marvin Reznikoff
Affiliation:
Fordham University, Bronx, New York
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In the development of the MMPI, one of the original purposes of this self-report inventory was to assist the physician in the detection of neuroses in his patients. Dahlstrom and Welsh (i), however, raise the question… ‘can a person who is physically deformed, handicapped, or sick get appreciable score elevations on the profile merely by giving a factual description of his disorder … (p. 274)?’

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 120 , Issue 555 , February 1972 , pp. 157 - 158
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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