Handwriting Analysis
Handwriting as an art form:
Handwriting represents a complex neuromuscular activity originating in the brain. For this reason the act of writing can, more accurately, be referred to as “Brain-writing.” Regardless of the penmanship model taught, individual style surfaces from the moment a writing implement is introduced. Ownership is verified because no two writing styles are ever completely alike, not even when done by the same person.
Handwriting as a projective technique:
Writing is an expressive gesture that communicates both nonverbally and verbally. The interpretation of these messages ultimately determines an individual’s personality because handwriting is believed to be a manifestation of conscious and unconscious thought. Empirical studies have been ongoing for hundreds of years in order to validate the connection between handwriting and personality. In the field of psychological testing, it is classified as a projective technique and has the potential for universal application when analyzing even foreign writing, symbols, scribbles, doodles and drawings.
In 1989 it was catalogued by the Library Bureau of Congress under, “Individual Psychology" with 3 subdivisions: 155.282 - Diagnostic Graphology, 262.2565 - Documentary Evidence and 658.3112 - Selection of Personnel by Management.
Evaluations are nondiscriminatory because age, gender, race, religious beliefs or handedness cannot be detected. Also Handwriting Analysis does not detect the specific events of one’s life…past, present or the future. The Supreme Court has deemed that handwriting analysis is within legal our constitutional rights based on the Fourth Amendment, “Search and Seizure Limitations” as long as the writing sample has been provided willingly and with permission from the writer.
Rates:
$185.00 - Personal Analysis - One typed page addressing specific areas of interest;
each additional page is $100.00.$375.00 - Special Project Analysis – One typed page tailored to meet specific project requests;
each additional page is $250.00
Eileen has special projects published in the following books: 1. Batchelder, Joshua with Sally A. Walker. The 100 Plus Club, Living Long, Living Well. Marietta, GA: Deeds Publishing, 2014. A personality profile was provided on a 106 year old man referred to as, “Great Uncle Charlie.” (Chapter XI, p135)
2. Akers, Monte, Nathan Akers, and Dr. Roger Friedman. Tower Sniper, the Terror of America’s First Active Shooter on Campus. Houston, TX: John M. Hardy Publishing Co. 2016. A personality profile was provided on the changes that occurred in the handwriting of Charles Whitman from the time he was 14 to 25 when he went into the University in Austin, TX and shot 46 people, 14 of them fatally. (Chapter 11, Part I - pp258 & 259; Part II - pp271-273)
3. Segal, Nancy and Yesika S. Montoya. Accidental Brothers, the Story of Twins Exchanged at Birth and the Power of Nature and Nurture. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2018. A blind research study was conducted using the Spanish printing of 8 Columbian college students with the tasks of identifying the twins that were brothers. (Chapter 7, pp 195 & 196)
4. Schlegel, Ron. Journey Toward a More Perfect Union. Charleston, SC: Palmetto Publishing Co., 2023. Since this book is about our founding fathers, personality profiles were provided using the handwritings of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. (Appreciation paragraph, p3; p55, 3rd paragraph; Appendix B, pp483 & 484; Appendix D pp487 & 488)
5. Book Pending Publishing - Handwriting expert rendering of a second opinion on identifying the writer of an anonymous note provided at a murder case that was tried in 1833. (projected availability-2025)