Similarly, little is known about whether sex offenders minimize or deny symptoms of psychopathology when undergoing psychiatric evaluations. To study these questions, the author administered the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) to 36 sex offenders, comparing the degree to which they minimized or denied psychopathology, dividing subjects along two dimensions: (a) whether they admitted to, or denied paraphilia, and (b) whether or not they faced legal charges for sex offenses. Results indicated that first, patients who denied paraphilia were significantly more likely to minimize psychopathology than were those who admitted to paraphilia; second, patients who faced no legal charges showed significantly more psychopathology than did those who faced charges; and third, the most frequent forms of psychopathology were antisocial attitudes, depressive features, somatization, and thought disorder. These findings suggest that many sex offenders may experience, and deny, widespread and severe psychiatric symptoms in addition to their sexual disorders. (Author abstract)