Handwriting Analysis in Psychology: Basic Theory

Handwriting Analysis in Psychology, one of Deborah Dolen’s bestselling books was updated 5-22-2103 to include more interpretations and examples.

Handwriting Analysis in Psychology is a very good book to understand the basics of the science without being overwhelmed. Who you initially learn from is important because you want to learn the correct interpretations from the start. It is often very difficult to go back later and change position. A good analyst draws their interpretations from all top authorities, such as famous forensic handwriting analyst, Michelle Dresbold, FBI literature and other skilled authorities. A good analyst will even know and present what few areas exist of disagreement in the meaning of something – to allow the student to come to their own conclusion. A good analyst is a team player and does not throw interpretations out there with no explanation as to from where they came. So anyone claiming they have “the only book you will ever need” is very concerning. The interpretations of handwriting is like Carl Jung’s “Collective Conscious” and no man is an island it the science of Handwriting Analysis. It was also Carl Jung who also felt handwriting was very telling in his psychological profiling.

Like fingerprints, handwriting is unique to a person and no two handwriting samples are alike. You can tell a lot about a person and perhaps your own self, by an educated examination of a good handwriting sample. This book was written from a forensic and scientific perspective, having nothing to do with palm reading and the like.

Deborah Dolen is author of 28 Diy type books, and finds Handwriting Analysis to be endlessly fascinating and a skill that has helped her in hiring decisions (handwriting naturally taken in context with many other factors) and even dating. Deborah Dolen studied handwriting analysis in forensics at USF [University of South Florida] before graduating from Eckerd College, in FL with a degree in psychology. Her main goal, before she ended up a prolific author, was to be a therapist and an effective one. Originally she simply desired to see if a patient was being honest with her, or themselves in a therapy setting. This is because some patients can “bull” for years and not really even want help—just attention of a therapist. In some cases, even the therapist for a long period of sessions does not understand they are wasting their time, or the real motives of the patient.

In her studies toward handwriting analysis the author was able to study primarily serial killers such a Bundy and a few others-learning they all had common traits of angular grandiose writing, as well as pasty and vicious strokes. Otherwise the personalities she studied were quite charming to the average person.

Handwriting is very revealing, our brains subconsciously “let it all hang out.” Handwriting can show for example, a person who claims to love kids-may actually not love kids at all. It may be just the opposite. Being able to get a sense for the person with issues is great for hiring a babysitter or child sitter.

Always, people project what they want us to believe. Everyone does it. But a keen eye with regards to what they subconsciously write on paper, can often cut to the chase. One, example, if handwriting slants backwards, and the writer is not left handed…well, it takes a lot of extra energy and intent to bother to slant backwards-so the writer could be extremely anti-social. That final determination would depend on other traits also. As you will see in the book, a profile is developed noting slant and other traits (that could cancel one negative trait out) and to look at a handwriting sample as a whole, as well as source a few hand writing samples from the same person if you want to be sure about a profile.

Handwriting analysis in psychology teaches you how to build a profile and go over many traits, with the goal of a summation at the end.