Can sex offenders who minimize on the MMPI conceal psychopathology on the Rorschach?

Journal of Personality Assessment

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 484-501

  Grossman, Linda S ^a   Wasyliw, Orest E ^b   Benn, Andrea F ^c   Gyoerkoe, Kevin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLERGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECUMBENCY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEXUAL CRIME; UNITED STATES; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DECISION MAKING; DISTRESS SYNDROME; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; CLERGY; DECEPTION; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MMPI; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RORSCHACH TEST; SEX OFFENSES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035997286     PISSN: 00223891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327752JPA7803_07     Document Type: Article

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