Graphology at Home, Lesson 1

Graphology is the study of handwriting and what it can tell about the mind behind it.

When a person writes, it’s his hand that does the writing, but his brain that does the dictating. There have been many cases of amputees who, having lost the hand or arm with which they wrote, relearned the art with [...]

Graphology in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Whilst the French school of graphology continued Crépieux-Jamin’s detailed observation of signs, in Germany graphologists were starting to consider the psychological aspects of the writing, and between 1895 and 1920 methodical investigation of the psychology of handwriting resulted in the establishment of graphology as a science. Georg Meyer, a psychiatrist and William Preyer, a child [...]