Clinical Personality Assessment

In this comprehensive volume, the second in the Oxford Textbooks in Clinical Psychology series, over 50 eminent contributors from a diverse range of psychological disciplines address fundamental issues in personality assessment. The contributors, whose approaches cover the theoretical diversity of the field, were invited to address an important problem area in personality assessment and write their chapters with a practical orientation. The resulting work merges outstanding variety and depth of coverage with a useful, hands-on focus. It will be considered a definitive reference in the field of assessment, appealing to practicing clinical psychologists as well as researchers.

Dr. James N. Butcher is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota and he is an internationally recognized and widely published authority on personality assessment. Dr. Butcher is currently the Editor of Psychological Assessment and serves as a consulting editor for numerous other journals in psychology and psychiatry. Personality assessment, abnormal psychology, cross-cultural personality factors, and computer-based personality assessment are the areas in which Dr. Butcher has maintained active research programs. He is the author of The MMPI-2 in Psychological Treatment (Oxford University Press) as well as many other books.