Q: Can you diagnose Dissociative Identity Disorder from an MMPI? - Anna
A: Dissociative Identity Disorder can not be diagnosed from an MMPI.
The MMPI was originally designed to measure the following symptoms/disorders:
1 Hs - Hypochondriasis
2 D - Depression
3 Hy - Hysteria
4 Pd - Psychopathic Deviate
5 Mf - Masculinity–Femininity
6 Pa - Paranoia
7 Pt - Psychasthenia
8 Sc - Schizophrenia
9 Ma - Hypomania
0 Si - Social Introversion
Over the years, people have found that they can measure other symptoms/functioning using the same questions, and have created other scales (measuring protocols). They are too numerous to list here, but you can see them all here. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is one of these additional scales, so it may be diagnosed from the MMPI.
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