by Holly Hogue
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Brief History of Handwriting Analysis by Holly Hogue
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Since the time of Aristotle we have been working toward a better understanding of ourselves through our handwriting. Even before Aristotle handwriting and character formulation were studied by the ancient Chinese. However, our first recorded information was by Aristotle. How we make our loops in letters, the alignment of upper, middle and lower sections of text, our letter spacing, and even the area on the paper we write on, tell a graphologist about our personality.
One of the first books published on the study of handwriting analysis was written in 1622 by Camillo Baldo. However it was not until the mid 1800's that handwriting analysis was finally taken in a more serious manner and Jean Hippolyte Michon coined the name graphology (grapho - I write: logos - theory or doctrine). After Michon had produced three books between 1870 and 1875, European schools of graphology denied the findings of Michon in favor of groupings of letters instead of individual character styles. To this date even the most experienced graphologist will use the individual characters to make quick analysis of handwriting when needed.
After the concept of Psychology became a reality more and more countries entered into the use of graphology. We owe much of our current day thoughts on graphology to the combined efforts of Georg Meyer and William Preyer who studied case histories of Freud to further the creditability of graphology. It has been established that our handwriting changes when we are in different moods, situations and circumstances. Like when we are in a hurry, feeling depressed, or when we are feeling our best. C.G. Jung has helped to further graphology by combining psychology and graphology into relating between social behavior and character assessment. Today Graphologists are trained around the world to serve numerous functions including: providing information about the personality traits of workers in corporations, job placement interviews for employment agencies; working with police and local authorities to understand the criminal mind through their handwriting; and with individuals who are wanting to better understand where they are and how to improve on their personality traits. |
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