# title
Assessing chronic pain with the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI).

# abstract
addresses the assessment of chronic pain with the MMPI, including the specific scales and profile configurations playing a prominent role in the evaluation of psychological factors contributing to chronic pain, as well as other physical disorders <xh:br xmlns:search="http://marklogic.com/appservices/search" xmlns="http://apa.org/pimain" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xh="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"/> in addition, a review of the most current empirical studies relating to the MMPI diagnosis and treatment of chronic pain are discussed <xh:br xmlns:search="http://marklogic.com/appservices/search" xmlns="http://apa.org/pimain" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xh="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"/> efforts to delineate distinguishing psychological features of specific pain subgroups are also explored <xh:br xmlns:search="http://marklogic.com/appservices/search" xmlns="http://apa.org/pimain" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xh="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"/> concludes with specific guidelines for incorporating the MMPI in the assessment of chronic pain syndromes (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)