This encyclopedic effort is both thoroughly comprehensive and highly readable. The four authors, contributing specialized knowledge from different experiences and perspectives in their uses of the instrument, go from the origins and structure of the test step by step to a remarkable range of practical approaches and interpretive hypotheses, including extensive forensic considerations....This is a must book for anyone doing either clinical or forensic work with the MMPI-2 or personality assessment research in general.
—Alex B. Caldwell, Ph.D.
Caldwell Report
Friedman, Lewak, Nichols, and Webb have done a masterful job of creating an extensively revised and expanded second edition of their guide to the MMPI. In addition to clinical interpretation suggestions for the MMPI-2 basic validity and clinical scales and subscales, the authors have also provided a rich review of the MMPI-2 content and supplementary scales. Researchers will benefit from the extensive referencesand rich appendix information provided in this text. Clinicians will undoubtedly appreciate the clinical treatment and patient feedback recommendations tied to many clinical scale and code pattern features, the emphasis placed on forensic applications of the MMPI-2, and the current and inclusive review of computerized interpretation approaches for this test instrument. This text will be a welcome addition for all those interested in maximizing the interpretation and integration of test results from the MMPI-2.
—Robert P. Archer, Ph.D.
Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk
This is an excellent book. For students who are learning about personality assessment, it provides an easy-to-read and engaging narrative. For more experienced clinicians who are interested in honing their MMPI-2 interpretive skills, it provides an up-to-date review of the research literature that is integrated with clinical lore and insights from the MMPI masters, including the present authors.sophistication is brought to bear throughout the book. In my view, readers will be quite pleased with their investment in this text.
—Gregory J. Meyer
University of Alaska Anchorage
Praise for the First Edition: Clinical psychologists ought certainly to be familiar with the MMPI, and this book is without doubt the best introduction available. The authors have unrivaled experience with the MMPI, and it shows.
—H.J. Eysenck, Ph.D.
University of London
Praise for the first edition: This MMPI text.will become the standard textbook for courses on the test. Nothing is in the running with it.
—Paul E. Meehl
University of Minnesota
For the student of personality assessment who is taking his or her first look at one of the current versions of the MMPI-2 or MMPI-A, the task of mastering the relevant background literature and interpretive lore is daunting, to say the least. A beginner facing this challenge is fortunate, indeed, to have this book in hand. While preserving the core of knowledge derived from the original MMPI, the text also summarizes the rapidly growing literature on the MMPI-2. Information about new scales and classic profile patterns have been brought together in a manageable format. Thus, the experienced user of these inventories is equally well served by this volume. The busy clinician who needs a summary of recent developments of the MMPI-2 will appreciate the authors' efforts to track down and summarize new material on the inventory.
—W. Grant Dahlstrom, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, From the Foreword
