Reinterpretation of the MMPI-2: A New Direction?The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) has maintained a presence as the leading objective assessment instrument for determining level and type of psychopathology among clinical populations. Despite the successful past of the MMPI and its successor, the authors of "The Clinical Interpretation of the MMPI-2: A Content Cluster Approach" (see record 2005-02707-000) propose additional modifications to improve the clinical utility as well as accuracy of the measure for disentangling specific components of personality. Edward E. Gotts and Thomas E. Knudsen contend that the current version of MMPI-2 clinical scales lacks precision in addressing personality characteristics, and their work comprises an exhaustive study addressing and accounting for the possible invalidity of the scales through the development of a content cluster approach to assessment. The book stands apart from other commonly used manuals for the MMPI-2, such as Graham (2000) and Butcher and Williams (1996), in that it incorporates innovative themes and creative analyses and, most significantly, provides new and updated research on the measure. In essence, the book constitutes an extended research article on the MMPI-2, while presenting the findings in such a way that allows readers to extract the content for clinical purposes. The reviewers conclude that, despite the thorough nature of the research, readers may find that the book fails to appropriately and sufficiently integrate findings in cohesive summary sections. Readers may find that the volume of data presented at times precludes an adequate understanding of study implications. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved)https://www.upress.umn.edu/test-division/bibliography/2000-2009/2005/foley_reinterpretation_2005https://www.upress.umn.edu/logo.png