A Totally Automated Psychological Test

Abstract
For decades the general medical practitioner has been aware of the large psychiatric or psychological component in his medical patients. What the physician specifically lacks, however, is a fund of patient-given information necessary for his prober evaluation of emotional conflict and possibly of major psychological problems. Usually this kind of information is available only to the psychiatric specialties, and the physician or internist has neither the time nor the inclination to obtain or organize the information necessary for the evaluation of these problems. An attempt to meet this need has been made.1 No doubt one of the most valuable structured personality inventories available today is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory2commonly identified as the MMPI. It embodies a series of 550 behavioral descriptive statements to which the patient responds true or false. These statements are grouped into several general categories for each of the basic scales. Responses of