What is a Graphologist?
A graphologist is someone who studies handwriting, and usually applies his or her studies to analyzing specific documents. In some cases, a graphologist is also a psychologist, because it is believed that handwriting provides insights into someone’s personality, mental state, and nervous system health. There are a number of potential careers for a graphologist, ranging from assisting forensic document examiners to helping companies with their recruitment procedures, and training varies from brief internships to years of professional schooling. The art of graphology has been practiced for thousands of years; some of the Ancient Greeks, for example, boasted that they could learn a great deal about each other through examining their handwriting. Handwriting can be used to look at several aspects of personality. When employed to look at questionable documents, a graphologist will look at how the individual writes in multiple samples, identifying distinctive traits which may reveal whether
