MMPI-2: Assessing Personality and Psychopathology

I used this book for a master's level behavioral/personality assessment course. We spent about half of the semester on the MMPI-2, and this book was really informative and helped foster knowledge around the assessment. Since ending the course, I have not kept the book, as most information you need to interpret the MMPI-2 can be found online. However, when learning about the assessment this was a great tool to understand the different scales and codes. It is laid out in an organized fashion that is easy to understand. The history is there, and then it does into the scales, sub-scales, and factors. It gives a lot of information and possible interpretations for each scale and factor, so it's easier to read it and apply what seems relevant to a client you have some background information on. When doing a blind-interpretation, it provides so much information that you have to pick and choose what sounds the most important to include. I was able to use this book to do a couple blind interpretations, and got 100% scores on each (prof's grading). For learning purposes, each student would be assigned a couple scales and codes to teach the class about, and this book was all you needed to learn enough to each everyone. It was a great book for the course. Lengthy, but helpful!

This was a required text for my Objective Personality Assessment course, and I actually found it quite enjoyable. Graham shows clear mastery of this content and presents it in a way that is easy to understand and navigate. I recommend it to professors or for anyone interested in learning more about the MMPI.

Rented this book for class and it was super helpful and easy to navigate! Only problem was there were a few stains on some pages some looked like either Ketchup or blood stains.

Anyone who has used Graham's prior editions knows that the description of background of test construction, as well as the descriptions of the various scales and their interpretation, is quite thorough. As the research base continues to grow, this new 5th edition is up-to-date, especially in describing the newer RF form of the clinical scales. The revised scales for the RF are very clean/much less intercorrelated, resulting in higher clarity for us when interpreting the scales. This 5th edition of Graham's book is inclusive of the MMPI-2, the MMPI-A, and the newer RF version. That said, if you want to focus exclusively on the RF version of the test, you might want to buy the Ben Porath manual for the RF in addition to or instead of this book. Finally, this book was sufficiently comprehensive and practical that I referred to it repeatedly in teaching my center's interns the MMPI-A, and I appreciate Graham's meticulous approach to revision.

There is a lot of information here that you don't find anywhere else. I like it in conjunction with Greene's 3rd edition. They overlap a great deal but where they don't overlap they give they give a combined, fuller picture of what the test results mean. By all means buy a copy, but buy a copy of Greene's book as well.

This should be a requirement to read. I prefer this over the denser greene book. Although greene comprehensively discusses the psychometrics, I found the interpretive intention in this book far more clinician friendly. When I finished my masters I lent this book to a co-worker and never got it back. I had to re-buy it and I don't regret it at all. I have yet to read the 3rd version, but if it is as good as this one- it's a keeper as well.For the price, every grad student should pick up a copy of this book.

Overall this book is great for describing the MMPI-2 for you - it gives thorough descriptions of all of the scales, code types, meanings, and so forth. It is very DRY but what do you expect? If you give the MMPI-2 quite a bit and need to learn more about the personality test I would definitely recommend this book as Grahm is highly respected within the psychology field in regards to this test!

If you want to learn how to do and interpret MMPIs this is definitely the book. I can say it was worth buying.

Good

No surprises, a revised edition of the last revision