ABSTRACT
Many of the instruments of clinical psychology, in particular those concerned with personality assessment, would benefit greatly from the development of norms from this kind of controlled sampling. The Anxiety Index seems to be reliably associated with clinical appraisals of anxiety, and the Internalization Ratio as a reflection of amount of "somatization" of conflict appears highly related to response to therapy. In view of the great need for knowledge of a factual nature in the field of psychotherapy, it is encouraging to find that the frequency of research reports concerned with objective evaluation of the effects of psychotheraphy remains high. Sullivan and Welsh develop a relatively simple and promising technique for configural analysis of MMPI profiles which represents a midpoint between the configural item scoring possibilities suggested by Meehl and the configural analysis represented by experienced clinical interpretation.
