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" The Definitive Book of Handwriting Analysis is a must for all serious students of graphology." --Iris Hatfield, Professional Graphologist, HuVista International
The complete guide to graphology from the winner of Flandrin-Michon AHAF President's Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Handwriting Analysis Foundation
The ability to write by hand is a pinnacle of human achievement. As a form of self-expression, handwriting reflects a person's thoughts about the self and reveals aspects of a person's personality.
Written in a step-by-step fashion, The Definitive Book of Handwriting Analysis begins with the history of the field and then teaches you how to analyze any handwriting, starting with objective criteria, including variables such as organization, speed, size, shape, slant, and symbolic features. Then you learn how to combine these variables to create a full personality profile.
There are more than 100 handwriting samples, including those from Paul Newman, Bill Clinton, Marlon Brando, Donald Trump, Sigmund and Anna Freud, Thomas Edison, Osama bin Laden, Jacqueline Kennedy, Bruce Springsteen, Benito Mussolini, Napoleon, Michael Jackson, Robert Redford, Barak Obama, and Charles Darwin.
Part II discusses how handwriting is organized by the brain and includes many examples of the link between handwriting and various illnesses and brain disorders, from dyslexia and epilepsy to stroke and coma. It ends with a discussion of the link between different personality types, their brain organization, and their handwriting.
Part III is an in-depth look at the field of questioned documents, including such topics as free-hand forgeries, tracing, disguised handwriting, and anonymous notes. It features an in-depth discussion of how forgeries are created and how they are detected.
If you are interested in any aspect of this topic, The Definitive Book of Handwriting Analysis is definitely the book you need!
Table of Contents
Part I Behavioral Profiling | |
Chapter 1 A History of Graphology | p. 13 |
Chapter 2 How to Analyze a Handwriting | p. 48 |
Chapter 3 Form Level | p. 57 |
Chapter 4 The Psychogram | p. 70 |
Chapter 5 Traits: A Comprehensive List | p. 126 |
Chapter 6 Graphology and the Psychosexual Stages of Development | p. 130 |
Chapter 7 Handwriting and Psychobiography | p. 150 |
Chapter 8 Criminal Mind | p. 161 |
Part II Handwriting and Brain Organization | |
Chapter 9 Historical Considerations | p. 175 |
Chapter 10 Handwriting and the Structure of the Brain | p. 188 |
Chapter 11 Conscious, Preconscious, and Unconscious in Handwriting | p. 198 |
Chapter 12 Handwriting and Brain Trauma | p. 225 |
Chapter 13 Handwriting and Brain Organization | p. 242 |
Part III Questioned Documents | |
Chapter 14 Historical Considerations | p. 277 |
Chapter 15 Disguise in Handwriting | p. 292 |
Chapter 16 Tools of the Trade | p. 305 |
Chapter 17 Forgery Detection and the Colonial Bank Scam | p. 309 |
Chapter 18 Saving a Life | p. 318 |
Validation Studies | p. 325 |
Bibliography | p. 333 |
Index | p. 343 |
About the Author | p. 351 |