The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is the gold standard of psychological testing. The MMPI is well known as a valid and reliable measure of psychopathology. It is also highly capable of detecting an individual’s credibility, including whether they are trying to depict themselves in an unrealistically favorable light or trying to appear to have symptoms that do not exist. MMPI scores are normally presented in every medical-legal psych report. However, experience has shown that a large number of those scores are simply not possible for the patient to get, demonstrating that the doctor has made an error in scoring and/or reporting the scores. Until now the only way to get that information has been to go to the testing manual or one of the many books on the MMPI.
Here’s the deal! If you are an attorney or an adjuster that has a medical-legal psych report and you want to know if the scores in the doctor’s report are possible, email me the report or the pages with the scores and I will provide you with a work-product privileged report that will tell you whether those scores are possible or if the doctor has made a fatal error.
Just a convenient and free way of establishing the credibility of the doctor’s data!
More help can be found at my website (www.drleckartwetc.com) and in my book Psychological Evaluations In Litigation: A Practical Guide for Attorneys and Insurance Adjusters
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