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The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory in Recidivist Prisoners

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

J. K. W. Morrice
J. K. W. Morrice*
Affiliation:
Dingleton Hospital, Melrose
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While Visiting Psychiatrist to a convict prison, the author used the M.M.P.I. as an aid to clinical diagnosis. The test did not prove helpful in that respect. Impressive, however, was a profile recurring so often as to appear typical of the recidivist in prison.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 103 , Issue 432 , July 1957 , pp. 632 - 635
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1957 

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