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- From: amywoman@camelot.bradley.edu (Amy Harris)
- Subject: Re: MMPI, what's it tell?
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 00:49:12 GMT
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- In <BxvBtH.5K7@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu (JIM GRAHAM) writes:
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- >I've just returned from a Pain Clinic and filled out and mailed a
- >567-question true/false test called an MMPI.
- >What I would like to know is what it is supposed to tell about me.
- >It seems to me that the questions were tiresomely repetitive, and
- >hinted of such things as suicidal tendencies, paranoia, schizophrenia,
- >pyromania, hypochondria, etc., but not being and expert, I'm not sure.
-
- I think you guessed right here. In a clinical setting, it's mostly
- used to measure such dysfunctional things as paranoia, schizophrenia,
- depression, etc. etc.
- Unless they were using it for research purposes, that's probably what
- they were trying to get at.
- The MMPI was originally designed to make a distinction between the normal
- population and the so-called psychiatric population. A question that the
- psychiatric population answered differently from the normal population
- was considered significant and was included in the test.
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