Graphology
Graphology is the scientific study of analyzing handwriting in order to reflect insight over human psyche. Not always, but sometimes Graphology is misinterpreted in reference to forensic document examination. Although in the medical field understanding of handwriting is used to investigate whether there is any presence of nervous or brain disorder, this is not as same as our current discussion intends to be. Graphology itself is a contentious subject that includes a wide numbers of avid researchers like Sigmund Freud and many others. Admitted, proponents of Graphology argue regarding anecdotal facts that cover more than thousands of affirmative reports confirming its validity in the evaluation of human personality. However, there are a wide number of empirical studies that simply not make the grade as claimed by the proponents. This, nonetheless to say, eventually considers graphology as a disqualifying subject, not useful in practical purposes such as court proof or job recruitment.
Basic Principles
The understanding of Graphology is governed by few basic principles that can be listed as follows:
| • | Our ego becomes active when we attempt to write something. However the degree of active state is not always as same as at any given certain point. It has its own waves. At its highest end, all the efforts are executed by the writer himself, while the lowest end is characterized by the time when the writing organ itself sets off the motion as a result of obtained momentum and simply manifested by the force of it. |
| • | At the condition of writing difficulty, the writer prefers to use the simpler forms of writing. |
| • | Central Nervous System (CNS) governs the muscular movements in relation to writing. The outcome of writing is altered in advance as a result of the supplely pulled together coordinative configurations available in the hands, arms, and shoulder, which tag along the laws of dynamic systems. |
| • | The neurophysiologic functions contributing to written movement are associated with the orders in the CNS and fluctuate in line with them. Hence the written stroke reproduces both transitory and enduring transformations in the CNS like Parkinson's disease or alcohol over-use. |
| • | The writing movements along with the associated degree of muscular tension are located at the outward realm of the conscious regime and produce ideomotor effect. Biochemical factors, emotional and mental state involving stiffness in the muscle and elasticity are echoed through an individual's handwriting. |
| • | In the graphology analysis, the handwriting as well as drawing movements are analyzed from the perspective of understanding the production involving central nervous system (CNS), during which biochemical factors and dynamical restraints are taken into consideration. Taking these considerations into mind, it is the responsibility of the graphologists to estimate the prototype, outline, movement, regularity, eminence and uniformity of the graphical representation in the context of psychological understandings. Such psychological understandings greatly vary depending on the theory followed by the concerned analyst. |
| • | Most of the Graphology schools of thoughts agree that an individual graphological constituent may include a wide variety of clusters, where each cluster has different psychological understandings. The value of each cluster can be attributed precisely by tracing back each of the constituents of the group to the derivations and acclimatizing the implication of the concluding constituent to the orders of the background through which the form becomes visible. |