Table of Contents

Cover 2
Essentials of Psychological Assessment Series 4
Title Page 8
Copyright 9
List of Figures 18
List of Tables 20
Series Preface 21
Chapter One: History and Development of the MCMI®
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Through MCMI®-IV
Construction of the Legacy MCMI Tests (MCMI, MCMI-II, MCMI-
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III)
Development of the MCMI-IV 30
Test Yourself 40
Chapter Two: MCMI®-IV and Millon Evolutionary Theory 42
Personality as Focal Point in Clinical Assessment and Intervention 43
An Evolutionary Model of Personality 44
Motivating Aims 46
Problematic Patterns in Motivating Aims 48
Levels of Adaptiveness 50
Structural and Functional Domains 51
Applying Millon’s Evolutionary Theory to the MCMI-IV 54
Test Yourself 55
Chapter Three: Administration and Scoring 57
Administration 58
Scoring 62
Test Yourself 67
Chapter Four: Sections and Scales 68
Validity and Modifying Indices 69
Noteworthy Responses 72
Clinical Personality Patterns 74
Severe Personality Pathology 111
Clinical Syndromes 121

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 Severe Clinical Syndromes 124
Grossman Facet Scales 125
Test Yourself 138
Chapter Five: Interpretive Principles 140
Role of Personality in Assessment: A Recapitulation 141
Building an Integrative MCMI-IV Interpretation 144
Integrating the Overall Clinical Picture 153
Test Yourself 154
Chapter Six: Therapeutic Alliance Building 156
Introducing the MCMI-IV to the Examinee 158
Preparing the Examinee for Feedback 160
The Examiner’s Initial Preparation for Feedback 161
Moving Away From Labels 162
Understanding the Examinee’s Test-Taking Style (Modifying Indices) 164
Language of the Theory = Language of Alliance 1: Individual
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Personality Scales
Language of the Theory = Language of Alliance 2: Multiple
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Personality Scales
Language of the Theory = Language of Alliance 3: Facet Scales 169
Language of the Theory = Language of Alliance 4: Clinical
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Symptomology
Test Yourself 174
Chapter Seven: Strengths and Weaknesses of the MCMI®-IV 176
Strengths 177
Weaknesses 181
Final Comment 187
Test Yourself 191
Chapter Eight: Clinical Applications of the Millon
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Inventories
Key MCMI-IV Augmentation: Personality Spectra and Clinical
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Populations
The MCMI-IV in Clinical Assessment 196
Specific Assessment Applications With the MCMI 200
Other Millon Inventories 203
Test Yourself 208
Chapter Nine: Illustrative Case Reports 210
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 Case Example 1 211
Case Example 2 220
References 229
About the Authors 236
Index 238
End User License Agreement 272

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