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Personality Changes Following Prefrontal Leucotomy As Reflected by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and the Results of Psychometric Testing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Martha Vidor
Martha Vidor*
Affiliation:
North Wales Hospital for Nervous and Mental Disorders, Denbigh; Liverpool University
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The object of this study is to investigate the extent to which the MMPI reveals personality changes following prefrontal leucotomy, and how these compare with personality changes as shown in the results of intelligence testing.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 97 , Issue 406 , January 1951 , pp. 159 - 173
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1951 

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∗ Its authors call the MMPI a “Psychometric instrument designed ultimately to provide in a single test, scores on all the more important phases of personality.” The test consists of 550 statements printed on separate cards which are sorted by the patient into three categories: True, False and Cannot Say. The scorable items are tabulated on a basic record sheet used to score the different syndromes. The raw scores of a measured trait are translated into a standard score (the T-score), and plotted on a profile chart, the configuration of which is more important than the presence of any one trait to an abnormal degree.Google Scholar

Syndromes represented on Profile Chart:Google Scholar

∗ D. Rapaport, Diagnostic Psychological Testing, Chicago, 1945, Vol. I, p. 33.Google Scholar

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