Personality traits in handwriting

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What is Graphology (or Handwriting Analysis)?

Every action we take can be analyzed at least from two different points of view: what we are doing (adaptation) and what we express (expression). These two facets are both highly important in order to understand personality.

Handwriting clearly represents a product both of adaptation (use of conventional signs) and expression (personal elaboration of graphic shapes).

Graphology’s subject of study in is handwriting seen as an expressive behavior; this method is based on a psychological rule saying that every unconscious or conscious psychic content must become manifest through some kind of expression: all expressive behavior forms are expression of the human being and his/her distinctive features.

Handwriting, as well as all forms of expressive behavior, is highly consistent and does not change much in a lifetime. However, among all the expressive behaviors, it is the richest in informations about personality found till nowadays.

The spontaneous graphic movement reveals all about an individual, seen through criteria based on the two pillars of graphological interpretation: analogy and symbolism.

• Lidia Fogarolo
• January 1st, 2003