Fine Line Graphology, History Page

What is Graphology?
Graphology is the generic term used for all forms of handwriting analysis. Graphoanalysis is the registered trademark of the International Graphoanalysis Society, Chicago and points to this particular discipline of handwriting analysis as a valid method of identifying and assessing the character and personality through a detailed study of handwriting.
It cannot distinguish sex, race, religious affiliation, or sexual preference. This allows the Graphoanalyst to provide a detailed and unbiased assessment.

The first treatise on handwriting analysis was written in 1633 by Camillo Baldo, a professor at The University of Bologna.

During the 19th century a French clergyman named Abbe Michon formed a professional organisation, Societe Graphologique, to examine the relationship between graphology and personality. By the end of the 19th century a number of German psychiatrists had become involved and they produced many new insights.

By the turn of the twentieth century, Alfred Binet, developer of the I.Q. test, had taken an interest in handwriting analysis and produced some of the first validation studies. By that time graphology was well established in France and Germany.

Since then, numerous studies have been conducted by serious scholars and are published annually in particular; The International Graphoanalysis Society, which has had a research department since 1929.