How to Interpret the MMPI–2

Reviews the book, MMPI-2: Assessing Personality and Psychopathology by John R. Graham (1990). Graham is uniquely qualified to write this manual on how to interpret the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory--2 (MMPI-2). He published a similar manual for the original MMPI in 1977 and revised it in 1987. He is also one of those most responsible for revising the MMPI. The book is readable, instructive, and authoritative. Graham describes the changes from the original MMPI to the MMPI-2, for example, (a) deletion or revision of some items that were either objectionable, old fashioned, ungrammatical, or little used, (b) construction of new and more representative norms, (c) revision of the method of converting raw scores to T scores for a majority of the scales so that equal T scores will have equal percentile values, and (d) addition of items to create new content scales to meet special needs unaddressed by the original MMPI. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)