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Differentiating Normal and Abnormal Personality

Author : Stephen Strack, PhD
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780826132079
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Differentiating Normal and Abnormal Personality by : Stephen Strack, PhD

Download or read book Differentiating Normal and Abnormal Personality written by Stephen Strack, PhD and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006-05-16 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This updated and expanded second edition of this influential book has no competition. There is no competition because there are no other books like it on the market and also because of the breadth and importance of the topics that are covered by leading-edge researchers in the field....Would be an excellent centerpiece for graduate courses in personality psychology. It provides state-of-the-art reviews of theories, statistical methods, assessment methods, and research findings. The topics and the quality of the writing should make the book highly appealing to students in both personality and abnormal psychology."--PsycCRITIQUES This long-awaited, completely new update to a classic text offers a state-of-the-art overview of a rapidly growing field that seeks to integrate the study of normal and abnormal personality. Written by some of the most influential personologists of the 21st century, including Aaron Beck, C. Robert Cloninger, Robert McCrae, and Theodore Millon, chapters show how current theories, statistical methods, and assessment instruments can be used to understand the entire spectrum of personality functioning, from normal to disordered. With graduate students and professionals new to the field in mind, this book provides information about the central issues that are being addressed by researchers and clinicians in the realm of normal-abnormal personality today. In addition, it provides essential terminology, ideas, and methods that are unique to the field at large as well as basic tools needed to become a participant in normal-abnormal psychology. Divided into three parts, the book presents an overview of major theories, statistical methods, and measurement instruments, including: Seven influential models of personality and psychopathology Four statistical methods for use in taxonomy, diagnosis, similarities and differences between normal and abnormal personality, and genetic and environmental influences Problems and pitfalls in designing empirical studies in the realm of normal-abnormal personality Empirically-based introductions and reviews of five widely-used instruments for assessing normal-abnormal personality

Paradigms of Personality Assessment

Author : Jerry S. Wiggins
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572309135
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Paradigms of Personality Assessment by : Jerry S. Wiggins

Download or read book Paradigms of Personality Assessment written by Jerry S. Wiggins and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2003-08-06 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a uniquely integrative introduction to adult personality assessment that will engage graduate and undergraduate students.

Interpreting the MMPI-2-RF

Author : Yossef S. Ben-Porath
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452932905
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Book Synopsis Interpreting the MMPI-2-RF by : Yossef S. Ben-Porath

Download or read book Interpreting the MMPI-2-RF written by Yossef S. Ben-Porath and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed and practical instruction for interpreting the newly published MMPI-2-RF

Clinical Assessment and Management of Severe Personality Disorders

Author : Paul S. Links
Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780880484886
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (848 download)

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Book Synopsis Clinical Assessment and Management of Severe Personality Disorders by : Paul S. Links

Download or read book Clinical Assessment and Management of Severe Personality Disorders written by Paul S. Links and published by American Psychiatric Pub. This book was released on 1996 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clinical Assessment and Management of Severe Personality Disorders (Clinical Practice 35) offers the clinician working in the community a practicable approach to the treatment of patients with personality disorders. Clearly written, with minimal use of jargon, this book focuses on issues relevant to the clinician in private practice, including the diagnosis of a wide range of personality disorders and alternative management approaches. Recognizing patients with a personality disorder, differentiating one disorder from another, and using psychological tests in the diagnosis and treatment of personality disorders are among the clinical assessment issues covered. Two commonly encountered issues -- the assessment and management of patients using a neuropsychiatric approach and treatment of patients with comorbid symptoms and personality disorders -- are discussed. This book takes a broad approach to the management of personality disorders, moving beyond individual dynamic psychotherapy as the only treatment option. Pharmacological management of patients with personality disorders and differential management for patients in various settings are described. A discussion of the etiological impact and implications of early life experiences on the patient offers valuable insight for psychotherapeutic management. Clinicians are also provided with a useful framework for interacting and intervening with the families of patients with personality disorders.

Personality Assessment

Author : Robert P. Archer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135595445
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Book Synopsis Personality Assessment by : Robert P. Archer

Download or read book Personality Assessment written by Robert P. Archer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-05-20 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personality Assessment provides an overview of the most popular self-report and performance-based personality assessment instruments. Designed with graduate-level clinical and counseling psychology programs in mind, the book serves as an instructional text for courses in objective or projective personality assessment. It provides coverage of eight of the most popular assessment instruments used in the United States—from authors key in creating, or developing the research base for these test instruments. The uniquely informed perspective of these leading researchers, as well as chapters on clinical interviewing, test feedback, and integrating test results into a comprehensive report, will offer students and clinicians a level of depth and complexity not available in other texts.

Personality Assessment in Treatment Planning

Author : James Butcher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195330978
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Book Synopsis Personality Assessment in Treatment Planning by : James Butcher

Download or read book Personality Assessment in Treatment Planning written by James Butcher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-20 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The establishment of frank and honest communication is one of the most important early goals of psychotherapy. Indeed, the most prominent challenge in the early stages of treatment is to develop a comfortable relationship that allows disclosure. In this volume, the authors show that objectively interpreted personality measures can be applied in psychotherapeutic assessments to facilitate an understanding of the patient and a thriving treatment program.Successful psychotherapy depends upon an early understanding of the patient's problems and personality and the establishment of attainable treatment goals. The extensive accumulated base of knowledge about personality and its maladjustment has become crucial when making treatment decisions about individuals in psychotherapy, and the field of personality assessment provides both methods and substantive information to support treatment-oriented evaluation.The MMPI has a long tradition of providing personality information about clients in mental health settings since the 1940s. James Butcher participated in the creation of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2) in 1989, which has continued to be one of the most commonly used personality tests in clinical evaluation. Over a thousand studies have been conducted on the effectiveness of the MMPI in treatment related assessments. Here, Butcher and co-author Julia Perry explore the MMPI-2 as well as a new assessment tool, the Butcher Treatment Planning Inventory (BTPI). In using psychological evaluation techniques for treatment planning, many clinicians incorporate information from a broad base of instruments-clinical interview, projective testing, behavioral data, and personal history-and do not rely on data from a single source. Therefore, while this volume focuses on the use of the MMPI-2 and the BTPI in treatment planning, it will provide a context not to the exclusion of other measures.

Personality and Assessment

Author : Walter Mischel
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1134996527
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Book Synopsis Personality and Assessment by : Walter Mischel

Download or read book Personality and Assessment written by Walter Mischel and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After many "out-of-print" years, this volume has been reissued in response to an increasing demand for copies. This reflects that the fundamental questions that motivated this book thirty years ago are still being asked. But more important, the answers -- or at least their outlines -- now seem to be in sight. In 1968, this book stood as an expression of a paradigm crisis in its critique of the state of personality psychology. The last three decades have been filled with controversy and debate about the dilemmas raised here, and then with renewal and fresh discoveries. It therefore seems especially timely to revisit the pages which posed the challenges. Mischel outlined the need to encompass the situation in the study of personality, but with a focus on the acquired meaning of stimuli and on the situation as perceived, viewing the individual as a cognitive-affective being who construes, interprets, and transforms the stimulus in a dynamic reciprocal interaction with the social world. He focused on the idiographic analysis of personality that had originally motivated the field, and the complexity, discriminative facility, and uniqueness of the individual, and sought to connect the expressions of personality to the individual's behavior -- that is, to what people do and not just what they say. Even the intrinsically contextualized "if...then..." expressions of the personality system -- its essential behavioral signatures -- were foreshadowed in this book that fired the opening salvo in a search for "a truly dynamic personality psychology."

Psychological Assessment With the MMPI-2

Author : Alan F. Friedman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135693862
Total Pages : 723 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Book Synopsis Psychological Assessment With the MMPI-2 by : Alan F. Friedman

Download or read book Psychological Assessment With the MMPI-2 written by Alan F. Friedman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: User-friendly yet sophisticated, Psychological Assessment With the MMPI-2 will be welcomed by practicing psychologists, researchers, and students alike. This long-awaited second edition constitutes the single most comprehensive and up-to-date textbook of MMPI-2 interpretation. Completely rewritten to address the changes to the original instrument that resulted in the MMPI-2 in l989, it describes in detail all the MMPI-2 scales--clinical, supplementary, and content--and offers empirically-grounded and clinically-tested recommendations for their use. The last decade has seen an explosion of research, as well as a steady accumulation of experiential wisdom; bridging the gap between behavioral science and practice, the authors review all the major findings and their implications and draw on rich clinical material to illuminate the issues. This second edition: * helps users with forensic interests including attorneys needing a reference for expert review; * gives step-by-step advice on interpreting profiles; * includes treatment recommendations in the explanation of every code pattern; * provides extensive guidance on report-writing for new users; * compares the most current MMPI-2 computer reports; * features numerous tables, figures, and appendices for all the MMPI-2 scales including the newer validity measures; and * incorporates 570 references (235 completely new).

Essentials of MMPI-2 Assessment

Author : David S. Nichols
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118037391
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Essentials of MMPI-2 Assessment by : David S. Nichols

Download or read book Essentials of MMPI-2 Assessment written by David S. Nichols and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Second Edition is used by a broad range of clinicians to assist with the diagnosis of mental disorders and the selection of appropriate treatment methods. To use it properly, professionals need an authoritative source for use of this test. This thoroughly updated and revised second edition of Essentials of MMPI-2 Assessment provides that resource. In addition to comprehensive updates to the research and literature throughout, the new edition will include information on other versions of the test, including the MMPI-2 RC and the MMPI-2-RF. Clinical and school psychologists are provided with information on administering, interpreting, and scoring this most widely used test for assessing personality.

Handbook of Psychology, Assessment Psychology

Author : John R. Graham
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471264512
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Psychology, Assessment Psychology written by John R. Graham and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-03-11 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes established theories and cutting-edge developments. Presents the work of an international group of experts. Presents the nature, origin, implications, an future course of major unresolved issues in the area.

Emerging Issues and Methods in Personality Assessment

Author : John A. Schinka
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134806337
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Emerging Issues and Methods in Personality Assessment written by John A. Schinka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes a collection of articles that were written for, and recently published as, special sections in three consecutive issues of the Journal of Personality Assessment. Part I provides lucid commentaries on the current status of and future issues regarding the Rorschach and MMPI-2 and other instruments, including the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory -- Adolescent (MMPI-A), the Interpersonal Adjective Scales (IAS-R), the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems -- Circumplex version (IIP-C), the revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R), and the third edition of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI-III). The authors not only participated in the dvelopment of the instruments, but continue to lead the research effort in their application in both clinical and research settings. Part II addresses several issues that have been recurring themes, and often topics of debate, in the research and professional literature. The contributors discuss the impact of the five-factor model on personality assessment, the issue of deception in personality assessment, and various critical issues in the measurement of mood states. Other articles focus on the integration of the MMPI-2 and Rorschach and the process that clinicians should follow when applying scientific knowledge to clinical practice. Part III is primarily devoted to overviews of several statistical methods that are employed infrequently in personality assessment research, but have great potential in contributing to the understanding of the complex data sets often encountered in the measurement and study of personality. These articles serve as both an introduction and a brief tutorial for personality researchers who are unfamiliar with the subject matter. They are valuable references that will form the basis for evaluating the appropriate use of these methods in published research in their areas of interest.

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology

Author : Amy Wenzel
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506353223
Total Pages : 4200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)

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Book Synopsis The SAGE Encyclopedia of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology by : Amy Wenzel

Download or read book The SAGE Encyclopedia of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology written by Amy Wenzel and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 4200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abnormal and clinical psychology courses are offered in psychology programs at universities worldwide, but the most recent major encyclopedia on the topic was published many years ago. Although general psychology handbooks and encyclopedias include essays on abnormal and clinical psychology, such works do not provide students with an accessible reference for understanding the full scope of the field. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology, a 7-volume, A-Z work (print and electronic formats), will be such an authoritative work. Its more than 1,400 entries will provide information on fundamental approaches and theories, various mental health disorders, assessment tools and psychotherapeutic interventions, and the social, legal, and cultural frameworks that have contributed to debates in abnormal and clinical psychology. Key features include: 1,400 signed articles contained in 7 volumes and available in choice of print and/or electronic formats Although organized A-to-Z, front matter includes a Reader’s Guide grouping related entries thematically Back matter includes a Chronology, Resource Guide, Bibliography, and detailed Index Entries conclude with References/Further Readings and Cross-References to related entries The Index, Reader’s Guide themes, and Cross-References between and among entries all combine to provide robust search-and-browse features in the electronic version.

Managing Personality

Author : Donald W. Fiske
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351507192
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Managing Personality written by Donald W. Fiske and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing Personality is grounded in the conviction that scientific understanding of personality requires measurement in order to describe phenomena in an objective, systematic fashion and to test theories. Many have argued that science progresses with improvements in instrumentation and methodology. The critical issue in the study of personality is being sure that each concept or theoretical term is measurable, with procedures that can be specified and observed. This book is concerned with tactics and strategies for improving the relationships between ideas and observations. By contributing to advances in personality measurement, this book seeks to further the science of personality. Fiske is convinced of the importance of developing concepts, variables, and dimensions applicable to all people, rather than the personality of an individual person. Although case studies of personality is necessary for efforts to help individuals in the clinic, finding and measuring common personality attributes is more important to the development of a science of personality. Managing Personality was written for two groups of people. It is intended to present the status quo to those who want a synthesis of personality measurement as it exists. Such people may have some general interest in the field or may be interested in it because they intend to work in such related areas as clinical practice. The second audience includes students of personality who are concerned with evaluating the measurement of personality, and especially people who are conducting such research or are preparing themselves for such work.

Therapeutic Feedback with the MMPI-2

Author : Richard W. Levak
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136811583
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Therapeutic Feedback with the MMPI-2 written by Richard W. Levak and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Therapeutic Feedback with the MMPI-2 provides the clinician with empirically-based, practical information about how to convey the abundance of information in the MMPI-2 profile in a way that is collaborative, empathic, hopeful, and facilitates a therapeutic alliance. Readers will find this book to be as useful and applicable as the MMPI-2 itself, which is used in psychiatric hospitals; correctional settings; in evaluations for job selection, general medicine, forensic and child custody cases; and even in screenings for television, game, and reality shows. The authors expand upon this already robust test by demonstrating how therapeutic assessment and feedback can be improved upon by considering three contributions from positive psychology: that behavior can be viewed as potentially adaptive; traditional pathological and maladaptive behaviors can be reframed as understandable responses to stressors that therapeutic feedback is empathic, nonjudgmental, and mostly jargon free; humans respond to overwhelming stress in understandable ways that the therapist can give coherence and meaning to lastly, that therapeutic feedback stresses self-esteem and resilience building through self-awareness as a goal. Discussion centers around ten scales and 27 common code types. Each section addresses the complaints, thoughts, emotions, traits and behaviors associated with the profile; therapists’ notes; lifestyle and family background; modifying scales; therapy and therapeutic pitfalls; feedback statements; and treatment and self-help suggestions. The larger page size reflects the size of the MMPI-2 interpretive reports and makes it easy for clinicians to copy pages of the book to share with their clients. Therapeutic Feedback with the MMPI-2 is the most detailed volume available on MMPI-2 feedback and is a valuable addition to the bookshelf of any clinician who uses this test.

Handbook of Psychology, Assessment Psychology

Author : Irving B. Weiner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118282043
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Psychology, Assessment Psychology written by Irving B. Weiner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychology is of interest to academics from many fields, as well as to the thousands of academic and clinical psychologists and general public who can't help but be interested in learning more about why humans think and behave as they do. This award-winning twelve-volume reference covers every aspect of the ever-fascinating discipline of psychology and represents the most current knowledge in the field. This ten-year revision now covers discoveries based in neuroscience, clinical psychology's new interest in evidence-based practice and mindfulness, and new findings in social, developmental, and forensic psychology.

Clinical Diagnosis of Mental Disorders

Author : Benjamin Wolman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1468424904
Total Pages : 1017 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Clinical Diagnosis of Mental Disorders written by Benjamin Wolman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 1017 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries the "treatment" of mentally disturbed individuals was quite simple. They were accused of collusion with evil spirits, hunted, and persecuted. The last "witch" was killed as late as 1782 in Switzerland. Mentally disturbed people did not fare much better even when the witchhunting days were gone. John Christian Reil gave the following description of mental pa tients at the crossroads of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries: We incarcerate these miserable creatures as if they were criminals in abandoned jails, near to the lairs of owls in barren canyons beyond the city gates, or in damp dungeons of prisons, where never a pitying look of a humanitarian penetrates; and we let them, in chains, rot in their own excrement. Their fetters have eaten off the flesh of their bones, and their emaciated pale faces look expectantly toward the graves which will end their misery and cover up our shamefulness. (1803) The great reforms introduced by Philippe Pinel at Bicetre in 1793 augured the beginning of a new approach. Pinel ascribed the "sick role," and called for compas sion and help. One does not need to know much about those he wants to hurt, but one must know a lot in order to help. Pinel's reform was followed by a rapid develop ment in research of causes, symptoms, and remedies of mental disorders. There are two main prerequisites for planning a treatment strategy.

The Clinical Application of MMPI Special Scales

Author : Eugene E. Levitt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317843827
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book The Clinical Application of MMPI Special Scales written by Eugene E. Levitt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition continues to present the following special features of its highly successful predecessor: * an analysis of the major partitionings of the MMPI into special scales in terms of their clinical usefulness, resulting in the selection of those scales that most discriminatingly and non-redundantly represent the core psychological traits and qualities captured by the MMPI; * a number of individually developed scales that tap into additional aspects of validity, psychopathology, and adjustment and personality; * the Indiana Special Scales which sample additional areas that were not as well identified or delineated by prior scale development; * a critique of the foregoing selections in light of the extant MMPI literature (which this second edition further expands up to the current time) and of a major investigation at the Indiana University Medical School of the conjoint use of special scales; * a critique of the shortcomings of high-point codes; * a detailed, categorized listing of the most useful scales in empirical clusters based on their established intercorrelations such that not only scale elevations but also interrelations (and the departures from the expected) of scales become clinically interpretable; * an exploration of the interrelationships between Rorschach and MMPI variables, leading to complementary use of these two instruments. This second edition also takes into account the development of MMPI-2 and the status of its new special scales vis-a-vis the established scales derived from the original MMPI. In so doing, it indicates why the original scales continue to offer substantial advantages over the MMPI-2 scales. It further examines changes in the nosology of personality disorders and proposes special scale markers for these disorders as they have been clarified progressively through DSM-IV. This volume offers the MMPI user a library of psychological report statements based on special scale interpretation, with recommended score ranges and cutting points for particular inferences. These latter features appear together as an appendix styled as "The Human Computer." Unlike the typical computer-generated report, this appendix makes all decision rules explicit, thereby permitting the user to use the library of statements with full knowledge of their applicability. By retaining the element of clinical judgment -- the human dimension of inference -- the user is enabled to better integrate MMPI special scale findings with data from other sources while in the process of crafting the report. All of these new features are accompanied by applicable literature citations.