ABSTRACT
One of the unique and perhaps most popular features of the MCMI and the MCMI-II are the personality disorder scales. The diagnosis and assessment of personality disorders has become of substantial clinical and theoretical interest due in large part to the placement of the personality disorders on a separate axis in the third edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III; APA, 1980). The development of the MCMI was closely coordinated with the 1980 appearance of DSM-III (Millon, 1983a) and the popularity of the MCMI has been due in part to its provision of DSM-III personality disorder diagnoses.
