Publication details
Grafologie - mýtus a realita
| Title in English | Graphology: Myth and Reality |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 1998 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sborník prací filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity. P, Řada psychologická |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Psychology |
| Keywords | Graphology; Handwriting analysis |
| Description | Graphology is a science which entails some mistakes and wrong associations from the past till today. Up to now a part of the public and even a certain part of experts that imagine something between pseudoscience and delusion under the term of graphology. This article aims at refutating this wrongful attitude. In the first part some basic terms are explained, which are pertinent to the study of writing and graphology. It is obvious from the definitions that it was the confusion of graphology with paragraphology and other phenomena, that gave rise to the ascription of wrong name to graphology. In the second part of the article the readers can beget acquainted with a concise history of writing and handwriting analysis. The complexity of the grafological science will be evident from the enumeration of methods and procedures used for the analysis of writing. The number of graphic elements (which includes for example impressional, measurable and descriptionable signs) can be regarded as a proof of the complexity of the science. The next part tries to analyse some of the reasons why graphology is deprecated. We treat the problems of the principle of projektive methods (to which graphology belongs) in detail, because their disadvantages are often used as an argument against the scientific status of graphology. The end of the article contains a summary of several advantages and disadvantages of graphology, which imply possibilites for using graphology as a psychodiagnostic method. |