James N. Butcher, PhD, earned his bachelor's degree in psychology at Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina, and both his master's degree in experimental psychology and his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Currently a professor emeritus in psychology at the University of Minnesota and former editor of the APA's journal Psychological Assessment, he was awarded Doctor Honoris Causa by the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Florence in Italy for his cross-cultural research. He was selected by the University of Minnesota Press to serve on the committee to revise and restandardize the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). He founded both the annual Symposium on Recent Developments in the Use of the MMPI and the International Conference on Personality Assessment. Recent books include the Oxford Handbook of Personality (2 9), Practitioner's Guide to the MMPI amp ndash 2 (2 ), Use of the MMPI amp ndash 2 in Court (3rd ed., with Ken Pope and Joyce Seelen, 2 ), and Abnormal Psychology in Modern Life ( 4th ed., with Susan Mineka and Jill Hooley, 2 ). Dr. Butcher also consults and testifies as an expert witness in trials involving the MMPI.

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• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsA Well Traveled Path: MMPI Use and AdministrationTo Believe or Not to Believe, That is the Question: Assessing the Validity of MMPI amp ndash 2 Test ResultsA Bond With the Past: The MMPI amp ndash 2 Basic or Clinical ScalesThe Analysis of Complex Cases: Code-Type InterpretationThe Content Scales: An Assessment of Client Content ThemesThe MMPI amp ndash 2 Supplemental Scales: An Appraisal of Special ProblemsPutting It All Together: How to Interpret an MMPI amp ndash 2 Profile and Organize Test InferencesUsing the MMPI amp ndash 2 in Various Settings and PopulationsThe Report: Documenting and Explaining the Results of the MMPI amp ndash 2 EvaluationsDepartures from MMPI amp ndash 2 Empirical Traditions: The Fake Bad Scale, Restructured Clinical Scales, and the MMPI amp ndash 2 amp ndash RFAppendix A: Correlates of Selected MMPI amp ndash 2 Code TypesAppendix B: Selected References for the MMPI amp ndash 2GlossaryReferencesIndexAbout the Author

James N. Butcher, PhD, earned his bachelor's degree in psychology at Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina, and both his master's degree in experimental psychology and his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Currently a professor emeritus in psychology at the University of Minnesota and former editor of the APA's journal Psychological Assessment, he was awarded Doctor Honoris Causa by the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Florence in Italy for his cross-cultural research. He was selected by the University of Minnesota Press to serve on the committee to revise and restandardize the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). He founded both the annual Symposium on Recent Developments in the Use of the MMPI and the International Conference on Personality Assessment. Recent books include the Oxford Handbook of Personality (2 9), Practitioner's Guide to the MMPI amp ndash 2 (2 ), Use of the MMPI amp ndash 2 in Court (3rd ed., with Ken Pope and Joyce Seelen, 2 ), and Abnormal Psychology in Modern Life ( 4th ed., with Susan Mineka and Jill Hooley, 2 ). Dr. Butcher also consults and testifies as an expert witness in trials involving the MMPI.

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• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsA Well Traveled Path: MMPI Use and AdministrationTo Believe or Not to Believe, That is the Question: Assessing the Validity of MMPI amp ndash 2 Test ResultsA Bond With the Past: The MMPI amp ndash 2 Basic or Clinical ScalesThe Analysis of Complex Cases: Code-Type InterpretationThe Content Scales: An Assessment of Client Content ThemesThe MMPI amp ndash 2 Supplemental Scales: An Appraisal of Special ProblemsPutting It All Together: How to Interpret an MMPI amp ndash 2 Profile and Organize Test InferencesUsing the MMPI amp ndash 2 in Various Settings and PopulationsThe Report: Documenting and Explaining the Results of the MMPI amp ndash 2 EvaluationsDepartures from MMPI amp ndash 2 Empirical Traditions: The Fake Bad Scale, Restructured Clinical Scales, and the MMPI amp ndash 2 amp ndash RFAppendix A: Correlates of Selected MMPI amp ndash 2 Code TypesAppendix B: Selected References for the MMPI amp ndash 2GlossaryReferencesIndexAbout the Author

James N. Butcher, PhD, earned his bachelor's degree in psychology at Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina, and both his master's degree in experimental psychology and his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Currently a professor emeritus in psychology at the University of Minnesota and former editor of the APA's journal Psychological Assessment, he was awarded Doctor Honoris Causa by the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Florence in Italy for his cross-cultural research. He was selected by the University of Minnesota Press to serve on the committee to revise and restandardize the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). He founded both the annual Symposium on Recent Developments in the Use of the MMPI and the International Conference on Personality Assessment. Recent books include the Oxford Handbook of Personality (2 9), Practitioner's Guide to the MMPI amp ndash 2 (2 ), Use of the MMPI amp ndash 2 in Court (3rd ed., with Ken Pope and Joyce Seelen, 2 ), and Abnormal Psychology in Modern Life ( 4th ed., with Susan Mineka and Jill Hooley, 2 ). Dr. Butcher also consults and testifies as an expert witness in trials involving the MMPI.

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• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsA Well Traveled Path: MMPI Use and AdministrationTo Believe or Not to Believe, That is the Question: Assessing the Validity of MMPI amp ndash 2 Test ResultsA Bond With the Past: The MMPI amp ndash 2 Basic or Clinical ScalesThe Analysis of Complex Cases: Code-Type InterpretationThe Content Scales: An Assessment of Client Content ThemesThe MMPI amp ndash 2 Supplemental Scales: An Appraisal of Special ProblemsPutting It All Together: How to Interpret an MMPI amp ndash 2 Profile and Organize Test InferencesUsing the MMPI amp ndash 2 in Various Settings and PopulationsThe Report: Documenting and Explaining the Results of the MMPI amp ndash 2 EvaluationsDepartures from MMPI amp ndash 2 Empirical Traditions: The Fake Bad Scale, Restructured Clinical Scales, and the MMPI amp ndash 2 amp ndash RFAppendix A: Correlates of Selected MMPI amp ndash 2 Code TypesAppendix B: Selected References for the MMPI amp ndash 2GlossaryReferencesIndexAbout the Author