Study of Personality Unfolded through Script-psychology will give you as good if not better grounding in handwriting analysis than any other one book anywhere. Additionally, it contains valuable insights into many other areas.
It is 314-pages long, contains 82 handwriting specimens and 72 diagrams, as well as approximately 500 references from 180 Bibliographical sources.
Part I discusses the rationales and validity of graphology in the context of personality theories.
Part II examines the nature of the cosmos and of the 3 divisions of life on our earth ?? plant, animal, and human. It is shown that human life, from both physical and psychological viewpoints ?? with special emphasis on language ?? is based on triadic dynamics. The major principle here is the isomorphism between the structures of the universe and those of man.
Corresponding to these "triads of life," Part III begins a detailed study of graphology ?? here renamed script-psychology, to suggest its comprehensiveness ?? from its triadic foundations of movement, form, and arrangement, and from its lower, middle, and upper zones. These script triads are then connected to the three components of human life, matter-binding, space-binding, and time-binding. Script-psychology is then specifically correlated with the three divisions of man's nervous system ?? central, sympathetic, & parasympathetic. A main theme throughout this discussion is the isomorphism between the triadic foundations of script-psychology and those of the universe and human life.
Part IV then pointedly compares script-psychology with both psychoanalytic and non- psychoanalytic theories of personality, from triadic viewpoints .
Part V is concerned with script-psychology and counseling/therapy. After a detailed discussion of "psychosis" and "neurosis, "some handwriting samples are studied from these two viewpoints. The colloidal basis of life is then examined in light of man's emotions, thoughts, and behavior patterns, all in a therapeutic context. Finally, several schools of counseling are correlated with script-psychology. Triadic dynamics are stressed here
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The value of script-psychology in counseling/therapy is implicit throughout the whole book, but is treated explicitly in the last chapter. If you have no specific interest in counseling, this chapter can simply be considered further illustrations of the value of graphology.