CHIVALROUS MEN AND THE VICTIM-PRINCESS COMPLEX

Politically Incorrect ^ | 8/22/05 | Cary Roberts

[Richar]

Before long the Wicked Witches of the North have cast a spell on their Little Pretties. These young women soon graduate from college believing that women are paid less for the same work, that women were routinely excluded from medical research, and a multitude of other tragedies that have befallen womankind. Victimization has become a mainstay of their self-identity.

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[Aracelis]

All I care to say on this subject is that there are many examples of women still be excluded or only nominally included in a variety of studies that have bearing on our lives, health, academic and career choices. I enclose the following for your perusal (note that a woman was only recently included in this universally accepted assessment test): ______________________________________________________

MMPI-2™ (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2™) Authors: Revision of the original MMPI® by Starke R. Hathaway, PhD, and J. Charnley McKinley, MD

The MMPI-2 test’s contemporary normative sample and extensive research base help make it the gold standard in assessment for a wide variety of settings. The test can be used to help:

• Assess major symptoms of social and personal maladjustment.
• Identify suitable candidates for high-risk public safety positions.
• Support classification, treatment, and management decisions in criminal justice and correctional settings.
• Give a strong empirical foundation for a clinician's expert testimony.
• Assess medical patients and design effective treatment strategies, including chronic pain management.
• Evaluate participants in substance abuse programs and select appropriate treatment approaches.
• Support college and career counseling recommendations.
• Provide valuable insight for marriage and family counseling.

About the Authors
University of Minnesota Press Consultants

Yossef S. Ben-Porath is a professor of psychology at Kent State University and Auke Tellegen is a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Minnesota.

Manual Authors James N. Butcher, PhD; John R. Graham, PhD; Yossef S. Ben-Porath, PhD; Auke Tellegen, PhD; W. Grant Dahlstrom, PhD

Original MMPI Authors Starke R. Hathaway, PhD, and J. C. McKinley, MD, were on the faculty of the University of Minnesota Hospitals when the MMPI was published in 1942.

MMPI-2 Report Authors

James N. Butcher founded the MMPI Symposium and Workshop continuing education series and is the author of numerous books and articles about the MMPI, MMPI-2, and MMPI-A assessments. The second edition of his interpretive textbook about the MMPI-2 and MMPI-A (Essentials of MMPI-2 and MMPI-A Interpretation), with Dr. Carolyn Williams, was published in 2000 by the University of Minnesota Press. Dr. Butcher received his graduate training at the University of North Carolina.

Edwin I. Megargee, PhD, CCHP, recently retired as a professor of psychology at Florida State University. He earned his BA from Amherst College and his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. The author of more than 100 books, chapters, and journal articles about correctional assessment, he has consulted with numerous criminal justice agencies in the United States and Great Britain including the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the United States Secret Service. He received the Second Annual Award for Significant Research on the MMPI instrument from the University of Minnesota in 1987 and has received lifetime achievement awards from the American Association of Correctional Psychologists (1985) and the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (1994).

[billybudd]

My woman belongs in the kitchen, making me lunch.