pThis book is an update of iParadigms of Personality Assessment iby Jerry Wiggins 2003, Guilford, a landmark volume in the personality assessment literature. The first half of Wiggins 2003 described five major paradigms psychodynamic as exemplified by the Rorschach and TAT, narrative interview data, interpersonal circumplex instruments, multivariate five-factor instruments, and empirical MMPI. In the second half of the book, expert representatives of each paradigm interpreted test data from the same patient, Madeline. ppIn this follow-up, personality experts describe innovations in each of the major paradigms articulated by Wiggins since the time of his book, including the advancement of therapeutic assessment, validation of the Rorschach Performance Assessment System, development of a multimethod battery for integrated interpersonal assessment, publication of the Restructured Form of the MMPI-2, and integration of multivariate Five-Factor Model instruments with personality disorder di