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Originally Posted by amandalouise
to all concerned about the MMPI and"hanky" question -
one of my co workers just told me the very first copy of the MMPI written in the 1940's did have a question about playing a game called drop the hanky... back in the 1940's thats how a woman showed a man she wanted to spend time with him if he picked it up it meant yes he wanted her services... (prostitution and dating game)
that question was removed from the MMPI in the 1980's because women no longer used dropping hankies for prostitution and dating.
its purpose on the very first MMPI was to test for promiscuity and what was called "Hysteria" back in the 1940's Hysteria is now called Hystrionic personality Disorder.
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Yep, thats the one..........Tells you how long ago I took that first test, it was in the 80's! and so my dr had to explain all of that to me, because I had no clue. I guess I assumed they called it a MMPI II or III because it was a different version. Still I felt cheated, I was ready for that tricky question! That was the only question I've ever remembered on any of those tests. The rest-they just blur together, although I took then far apart, I did have Egg or eegs to rule out seizures, and that big noisy maching where you can not where metal, like going inside a chamber-even without hearing aids it was very noisy.
All in all, I have to say I got very lucky with my first T and mt first real P-doc. After my T told me I didn't have to go to the clinic and see who was rotating there that day, but I could pick my own. I was so naive about it all at first. He gave me some names of woman P-docs and she was one of them.
They did a good job of making sure it was nothing physical because of all the trama I had had. When I was in 3rd grade our family doctor thought I must have a brain tumor because I had such bad headaches, and was losing weight. That year I learned to not believe what doctors said, if they said it wasn't going to hurt, it meant it was going to hurt and badly. If it was going to taste like a milkshake that meant it was going to taste like chalk. It turned out I had a bleeding ulcer they had given me this stuff to drink, some kind of barium drink so the could read the ( I think it was an x-ray) X-ray. This was in the 60's and they hadn't yet learned that you shouldn't lie to kids. The eeg/egg machine back then still had wires in it that they twisted into your scalp, it didn't really hurt but the glue was horrible, it smelled very bad, then the remover was worse, it triggered a migraine. That made the doctors happy, they hadn't believed my parents about how sick I got when one of those headaches came. I got them so bad, and then they had to call all these doctors to come and look at me because they had never heard of a 8 year old or is it 9 year old having headaches with symptoms like that. It was horrible, they never talked to me, I was just an interesting specimen. So because of that and the beatings from my husband the T and P-doc wanted to make sure there was nothing physical. But those two, always explained everything, I was always grateful for that.