Handwriting Analysis As A Psychodiagnostic Tool

A collection of papers by practicing graphologists as well as critics from many fields, providing a balanced evaluation of claims that personality, aptitude, and psychological and physical health can be determined through handwriting analysis. Paper edition (unseen), $21.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

If you find yourself called on to judge people on a regular basis, you need all the tools at your disposal to do your job right. Handwriting psychology offers one practical method for helping you learn what you need to learn about your subject quickly. Whether you are a teacher, psychologist or manager, you can benefit from the guidance of Dr. Helmut Ploog, a handwriting expert. Learn what the size and width of handwriting can reveal about a person, as well as what more muted features—such as slant, spacing, and direction of lines—can make clear. Written in plain English, this guidebook presents pithy explanations of handwriting movements, which may be angular or round, long or short, heavy or light, high or deep below the base line. It also offers analyses of the handwriting of many well-known people, including Charles Darwin, Anne Frank, Paul Getty, Allen Ginsberg, Ernest Hemingway, Frida Kahlo, Somerset Maugham, Pablo Picasso, Pope Benedict, Vladimir Putin, Maurice Ravel, Carl Rogers, and Susan Sontag. Handwriting Psychology should never be used by itself to judge someone, but it can serve as an essential tool to make and confirm observations that could change your life, your career, and your approach to life.

Dive into the intricate world of handwriting analysis with GraphoPsychology, an enlightening journey that merges the rich realms of graphology and psychology. This book equips you to navigate the fascinating depths of the human psyche, turning handwriting from a mere series of strokes and loops into a profound, insightful exploration of personality and emotion. GraphoPsychology is not merely a book, it is an invitation to mastery. Prepare to evolve from a practitioner to an expert, a journey where every page turned equates to personal growth and deepened expertise. Discover the intricate relationship between psychology and handwriting, broaden your horizons, and unlock your true potential as a graphologist. Step into the world of GraphoPsychology, your journey to becoming a master graphologist begins here.

Handwriting is much more than scribbles on a page; it is a universal means of communication and expression. It reveals how we're feeling, who we really are, and can even expose health issues we didn't know we had. The ability to properly analyze handwriting to uncover these secrets is the closest we can ever come to reading people's minds ... It's also a great way to discover things about yourself! You can look at someone's notes, a signature, or even a grocery list, and find out more about them than you ever could from simply asking questions. All the things we try to hide about ourselves, all the things we don't like to admit about ourselves, and even our true personalities ... are all revealed through our handwriting. You'll learn not only about yourself, but also about your friends, family and even people you are interested in dating, hiring, or doing business with. This book will help you to easily start analyzing handwriting. It has been specifically organized so that you can learn how to do it quickly and put it to use immediately. You'll discover how to: Classify people into different personality "types" within seconds. Answer the most common questions people want answered about themselves (and others).

Learn to read your emotions and desires, and those of people you deal with every day. A graphology expert instructs readers in the basics of handwriting analysis. He shows how to employ a step-by-step method that gives a reliable description of a subject, based on a sample of his or her handwriting. Just as our voices reveal much about our emotions, our motives, and our needs, so too does our handwriting present a psychological profile to the analyst who knows how to decipher it. A simple but clever set of tools, devised by the author, is enclosed with this book. Its components are: A protractor to measure angles of handwriting slant and gauge emotions at the time of writing, as well as to interpret enduring personality traits A gauge for estimating the zones into which each part of a handwritten letter falls A rule for measuring any letter�s size and spacing All components in the tool kit are printed on sturdy, transparent acetate, to be used as an overlay on handwriting samples. An opening chapter presents an overview of handwriting analysis, discussing handwriting pressure, size, spacing, slant, and the qualities these features indicate. Subsequent chapters discuss what handwriting reveals about a subject�s public life and inner life. A final chapter offers an at-a-glance guide to decoding psychological meanings underlying the various ways in which a subject shapes each letter of the alphabet. This fascinating book provides a key to self-understanding and the understanding of others. More than 250 instructive color illustrations.

Faced with challenging economic times, contemporary clinicians require assessment tools which can accelerate the therapeutic process and facilitate brief psychotherapy. This text introduces graphology, or handwriting analysis, which has been used clinically in Europe for decades alongside other projective techniques. In Clinical Graphology: An Interpretive Manual for Mental Health Practitioners, this clinical application becomes accessible. The text provides a compelling rationale for the clinical evaluation of handwriting and demonstrates how therapists can access rich personal data by examining clients’ graphic behaviors. The text is designed to systematically present clinical graphology in theory and practice. A review of the literature demonstrates that the clinical use of graphology is consistent with the tenets of clinical practice. Graphological interpretive theory is presented in detail, providing a theoretical understanding of those graphic features which are meaningful indices of psychological phenomena. In this context, the inherent congruity between graphological and psychological theory is explored. Diverse handwriting samples, including many of contemporary public figures, illustrate graphic phenomena while demonstrating and encouraging the graphologist’s unique type of visual acuity. To facilitate the reader’s ability to synthesize graphic traits into a holistic personality profile, an interpretive schedule is provided which summarizes graphic indices and their interpretations. A method of assessing handwritings is provided which permits a degree of standardization and so facilitates research. Using this text, readers can integrate graphological theory and cultivate interpretive skills. Providing a comprehensive treatment of the psychology of handwriting, this volume includes a discussion of caveats which guide the clinical use of graphology as well as research considerations and guidelines for sharing graphological findings with clients. To date, clinicians in North America remain unaware of the merits of graphology usage although they continue to seek out methods of assessment which will facilitate their clinical efforts. This volume will demonstrate graphology as a tool which can be applied by those with virtually any theoretical orientation or practice model, speaking to the interests of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, art therapists, vocational counselors, pastoral counselors, and naturopaths, and paraprofessionals.