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The article discusses MMPI profiles of parents of child psychiatric patients. The staff of the Washburn Memorial Clinic, a child guidance clinic, has been using the MMPI routinely in the assessment of the children's parents' personalities. The present study involves all of the profiles obtained on parents of children referred to the clinic in a two-year period. The total sample of profiles included 104 father profiles and 158 mother profiles. The larger number of mothers than of fathers resulted partly because a number of the children had no father in the home and partly because some of the fathers did not participate in the clinic treatment program or was not as cooperative as the mothers in meeting requests of the clinic. In the study two methods of profile analysis were used. An analysis was then carried out in an effort to determine what types of parent profile codes appeared to be associated in undue proportion in any of the child problem categories.

The article reports on the psychometric localization of brain lesions. This paper is the outgrowth of a psychometric study of patients who had suffered focal brain damage and in whom the locus of the lesion had been ascertained either by surgery, e.g., in cases of brain tumor, or, in gun shot wound cases, by x-ray demonstration of metallic foreign bodies in the brain. The analysis described herein was performed to test the hypothesis that there are no significant differences between the Minnesota multiphasic profiles of the patients with frontal lobe lesions and the profiles of those patients with lesions involving the parietal lobe.