Graphology is the study of handwriting and what it can tell about the mind behind it.
When a person writes, it's his hand that does the writing, but his brain that does the dictating. There have been many cases of amputees who, having lost the hand or arm with which they wrote, relearned the art with either the other hand, or the feet, or the mouth. Aside from a certain understandable shakiness caused by the difficulties of the feat, the writings were extremely similar to the originals. Trained graphologists had no trouble recognizing the same individual.
From this, we see that it is the personality that is expressed on paper by the handwriting. When a person writes in a given fashion, it represents a particular personality trait, which comes directly from the brain. Thus graphology shows the most in-depth parts of the personality.
For example, it does not reveal the age or sex of the writer, but it does show his (or her) maturity and whether his (or her) personality traits are predominantly masculine or feminine. A fifty-year-old man or a ten-year-old child may produce mature writing, because it is the level of maturity that makes itself known not the chronological age. Similarly, some graphological signs point to a "masculine" type of personality, but many women write that way-and vice versa. Some graphologists do attempt to reveal these two factors of age or sex, but they are correct only 60 percent of the time, as compared to being 90-95 percent correct when dealing with psychological analysis.
Years ago, graphologists used to look for a common denominator in the handwriting of groups of people known to display a certain character trait. Having found it, they would conclude that everyone whose handwriting shows this particular idiosyncrasy must possess the same personality trait. If, among five hundred people, the majority wrote a t bar flung to the right and had violent personalities, then it was assumed that every writer of a t bar flung rightward had a violent personality.
This was known as the empirical method. Although modern-day graphologists do not totally disagree with this method, they do believe that empirical facts must be handled with care. The fact that the majority of the people in a particular group write a certain way is not proof that all do. It is only an indication, a hint of what else to look for. A single handwriting trait must be only one part of a total analysis and is useful only as a brushstroke in creating the total picture.

The following is a general list of what the graphologist will look for when doing an analysis.

1. Direction (slant) of writing
2. Zones
3. t bars
4. i dots
5. Sexuality
6. Base line
7. Margins
8. Beginning and end strokes
9. Connected and disconnected writing
10. Forms of connection
11. Pressure
12. Loops
13. Letters
14. Personality traits
15. Signature
16. Physical health

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