Elhai is particularly known for examining the detection of fabricated PTSD using psychological assessment instruments such as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 ., . and Trauma symptom inventory For example, he developed the Fptsd scale of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 as a means to detect fabricated PTSD, which has demonstrated modest success .,
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Regardless of how you answer that last one, the fact is that personality tests featuring questions like those are everywhere these days . The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, or MMPI, is taken by as many as 15 million people a year and used to screen applicants for jobs from police officer to nuclear technician to priest.
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The Rorschach's champions have often been almost worshipful in their belief in its ability to pare back the layers of the psyche, and the test is generally regarded as offering a richness of information about a person's psychological world that cannot be gained from interviews or from " self-report " tests like the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory or MMPI.
