Cross-Examining Psych Doctors-Tip #25-Absence of MMPI Scores

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is an instrument that is widely accepted by psychologists and psychiatrists as being capable of measuring any existing psychopathology and an individual’s test-taking attitudes or credibility.  For some unknown reason, many psych doctors choose to omit MMPI scores from their report.  The absence of those scores means that the reader of their report cannot verify the basis for their summary conclusions.  When you see that a psych doctor has declined to provide the patient’s MMPI scores in their report, you should ask them if there is anything in their report that would allow the reader of that document to confirm the conclusions they drew from the patient’s MMPI.

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