Personality assessment from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century: Past achievements and contemporary challenges

Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages 1-20

  Butcher, James N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment history; Exner Comprehensive System; MMPI; MMPI 2; MMPI 2 RF; Phrenology; RC Scales; Restructured Clinical Scales; Rorschach; TAT

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HISTORY; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM;

ACHIEVEMENT; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL;

EID: 77952922419     PISSN: 15485943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.clinpsy.121208.131420     Document Type: Review

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