Little data have been published on the educational and diagnostic differences of private hospital psychiatric patients on the MMPI. The present study reports the distributions of MMPI T scores and standard deviations for 4 female and 5 male educational groups and for 3 diagnostic groups of both sexes within a randomly selected group of 363 female and 542 male patients in a private psychiatric hospital. Results suggest that MMPI personality patterns should not be considered independently of the individual testee but that private psychiatric hospital patients do not produce MMPI profiles significantly different from those in state or provincial institutions.
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