Is handwriting analysis reliable?
It doesn’t seem possible that you can really tell if people are insecure or aggressive just by looking at their handwriting. RR: Yes, it is uncanny how accurate handwriting evaluation can be, but there is no mystery to it. Handwriting is based on brain function, and so the handwriting reflects your state of mind at the time of writing, not the muscles in your hands. One of my clients said to me: “I learned more about my marriage in five minutes with you than in five years with a marriage counselor”. I’ve been involved in certain court cases where I presented as supporting testimony a personality profile of a defendant and it perfectly matched the profile produced by forensic psychologists and/or the FBI Behavioral Unit. Current graphoanalytic theory was studied and written down in the early part of the 20th century. Ancient Greeks and Romans saw the individuality and relevance of studying handwriting strokes. In 2002 the U.S. Department of Justice published the results of their extensi
