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An MMPI sign to separate organic from functional psychiatric patients
Author(s) -
Watson Charles G.,
Plemel Duane,
Jacobs Lyle
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197804)34:2<398::aid-jclp2270340229>3.0.co;2-f
Subject(s) - minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychiatry , clinical psychology , sign (mathematics) , personality , social psychology , mathematical analysis , mathematics
Evaluated the utilities of all 90 possible unweighted additive/subtractive two scale MMPI combinations as indices to separate brain‐damaged from functional patient groups in a Veterans Administration psychiatric hospital. One index, Hs – PT, showed more promise than any of the other 89. HS – PT mean scores were significantly higher among organics than among alcoholics, neurotics, affective psychoses, character disorders, process schizophrenics or reactive schizophrenics. Interpretative information on the HS – PT index was presented.