Re:[tips] Famous people who have taken a (credible) personality test
Mike Palij drew attention to the analysis of Hitler by Henry Murray
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_of_the_Personality_of_Adolph_Hitler
I recall from perusing the analysis some years ago that it was Freudian
based. This is confirmed from this part of the report:
American psychiatry was in the middle of its period of infatuation with
Freud at this time (1943), as can be seen from pp. 8-10. Freud's
"Counteractive Pattern" is explained by the hypothesis that "as a boy
Hitler was severely shocked... by witnessing sexual intercourse between
his parents".
http://library.lawschool.cornell.edu/WhatWeHave/SpecialCollections/Donovan/Hitler/upload/Hitler-Section1.pdf
This notion, widely held beyond psychoanalytic circles in those days,
was thought to be based on solid evidence that Freud had acquired from
his clinical cases. In fact it comes entirely from the Wolf Man case
history, specifically Freud's ludicrous analytic interpretation of the
patient's dream of some wolves (actually dogs, as the Wolf Man later
revealed -- Freud made them wolves so he could bring in folklore in the
analysis) sitting in a tree. Using interpretations that have to be read
to appreciate their full absurdity (see my *Seductive Mirage*, pp.
68-69), Freud arrived at the conclusion that the dream was a disguised
unconscious memory of the infant Wolf Man witnessing his parents
engaging in sexual intercourse. Such was Freud's reputation that this
absurdity became received 'knowledge' well beyond the world of
psychoanalysis.
That said, there are plenty of sensible ideas scattered in Murray's
report.
Allen Esterson
Former lecturer, Science Department
Southwark College, London
allenester...@compuserve.com
http://www.esterson.org
From: Mike Palij
Subject:re: Famous people who have taken a (credible) personality
test
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:22:00 -0400
On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:01:29 -0700, Michael Britt wrote:
>I'm putting together an idea for a research study but there's one
piece that
>I'm not sure how to obtain: does anyone know of a well known person
who has
>taken a personality test (perhaps the MMPI) and the results of the
test are
>obtainable? The person could be dead or alive. Could be a writer,
politician,
>actor, etc.
I haven't seen anyone mention this yet, but after World War II a number
of
prominent Nazis were tested psychologically to determine what sort of
psychopathology they suffered from. Back in March 2009, the APA
Monitor had a short article on this which can be read here:
http://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/03/nazi.aspx
At the end of the article is mention of the book "The Quest for the Nazi
Personality" by Zillmer et al. Portions of which can be read at
books.google.com and is still available on Amazon; see:
http://www.amazon.com/Quest-Nazi-Personality-Psychological-Investigation/dp/0805818987
Henry Murray was also asked to prepare a psychological analysis of
Adolf ("Adolph") Hitler and one can use the Wikipedia entry on it to
go to the original report and related materials (yadda-yadda); see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_of_the_Personality_of_Adolph_Hitler
-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu
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Re: [tips] Famous people who have taken a (credible) personality test
Hi I've used MMPI profiles for Jeffrey Dahmer and Charles Manson in lectures ... elevated psychopathic deviant scores, but also other scales. I'm not sure where I got the profiles from. An MMPI profile for Dahmer is shown in Nichols (2006) J of Personality Assessment, 86, 242-262 Take care Jim James M. Clark Professor of Psychology 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca >>> Michael Britt 14-Oct-11 8:01 AM >>> I'm putting together an idea for a research study but there's one piece that I'm not sure how to obtain: does anyone know of a well known person who has taken a personality test (perhaps the MMPI) and the results of the test are obtainable? The person could be dead or alive. Could be a writer, politician, actor, etc. Appreciate the help, Michael Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: mbritt --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a891720c9&n=T&l=tips&o=13412 or send a blank email to leave-13412-13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a89172...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=13426 or send a blank email to leave-13426-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
re: [tips] Famous people who have taken a (credible) personality test
On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:01:29 -0700, Michael Britt wrote:
>I'm putting together an idea for a research study but there's one piece that
>I'm not sure how to obtain: does anyone know of a well known person who has
>taken a personality test (perhaps the MMPI) and the results of the test are
>obtainable? The person could be dead or alive. Could be a writer,
>politician,
>actor, etc.
I haven't seen anyone mention this yet, but after World War II a number of
prominent Nazis were tested psychologically to determine what sort of
psychopathology they suffered from. Back in March 2009, the APA
Monitor had a short article on this which can be read here:
http://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/03/nazi.aspx
At the end of the article is mention of the book "The Quest for the Nazi
Personality" by Zillmer et al. Portions of which can be read at
books.google.com and is still available on Amazon; see:
http://www.amazon.com/Quest-Nazi-Personality-Psychological-Investigation/dp/0805818987
Henry Murray was also asked to prepare a psychological analysis of
Adolf ("Adolph") Hitler and one can use the Wikipedia entry on it to
go to the original report and related materials (yadda-yadda); see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_of_the_Personality_of_Adolph_Hitler
-Mike Palij
New York University
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Re: [tips] Famous people who have taken a (credible) personality test
I've often suspected that the MMPI would be just as effective with a dead subject, or even a salmon. On Oct 14, 2011, at 8:01 AM, Michael Britt wrote: > I'm putting together an idea for a research study but there's one piece that > I'm not sure how to obtain: does anyone know of a well known person who has > taken a personality test (perhaps the MMPI) and the results of the test are > obtainable? The person could be dead or alive. Could be a writer, > politician, actor, etc. > > Appreciate the help, > > Michael > > Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. > mich...@thepsychfiles.com > http://www.ThePsychFiles.com > Twitter: mbritt > > > > > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: paul.bran...@mnsu.edu. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13438.3b5166ef147b143fedd04b1c4a64900b&n=T&l=tips&o=13412 > or send a blank email to > leave-13412-13438.3b5166ef147b143fedd04b1c4a649...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=13416 or send a blank email to leave-13416-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
