Table of Contents

Cover 2
Essentials of Psychological Assessment Series 4
Title Page 8
Copyright 9
List of Figures 17
List of Tables 19
Series Preface 20
Chapter One: History and Development of the MCMI® Through
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MCMI®-IV
Construction of the Legacy MCMI Tests (MCMI, MCMI-II, MCMI-III) 24
Development of the MCMI-IV 28
Test Yourself 37
Chapter Two: MCMI®-IV and Millon Evolutionary Theory 39
Personality as Focal Point in Clinical Assessment and Intervention 40
An Evolutionary Model of Personality 41
Motivating Aims 42
Problematic Patterns in Motivating Aims 44
Levels of Adaptiveness 46
Structural and Functional Domains 47
Applying Millon’s Evolutionary Theory to the MCMI-IV 50
Test Yourself 51
Chapter Three: Administration and Scoring 53
Administration 54
Scoring 58
Test Yourself 62
Chapter Four: Sections and Scales 63
Validity and Modifying Indices 64
Noteworthy Responses 67
Clinical Personality Patterns 69
Severe Personality Pathology 101
Clinical Syndromes 110
Severe Clinical Syndromes 113
Grossman Facet Scales 114
Test Yourself 122
Chapter Five: Interpretive Principles 124
Role of Personality in Assessment: A Recapitulation 125

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