Handwriting and Personality: How Graphology Reveals What Makes People Tick [Hardcover]

Ann Mahony (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1989

Provides a simple, straightforward tool for understanding personalities. You'll obtain remarkable insights into friends, lovers, family members, business associates and yourself immediately. It's fast-paced story line revolves around a dinner party of eight fascinating characters; you participate as an invisible guest as you learn their darkest secrets.

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Editorial Reviews

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... it reads like a cross between an excellent textbook, and a fascinating novel. -- Dr. Glenn Willison, MFCC, Stateline, NV

Her information is fresh, original, pertinent, incredibly practical, and could save your business. -- Patricia Fripp, San Francisco

If I hadn't used Ann's information as part of my hiring process, I would have made quite a few mistakes. -- Bill Lauterbach, Overland Park, KS --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Inside Flap

Discover How Handwriting Draws a Map of Your Mind.

Ann Mahony, an expert graphologist, teacher, and lecturer, has taught hundreds of people how handwriting analysis can help them make better-informed decisions about everything -- from choosing a mate to changing jobs to improving communication with children.

Now, with the simple-to-learn skills in Handwriting & Personality, you can gain unique insight into friends, lovers, family members, business associates, and even yourself -- almost immediately. You will meet eight basic personality types and learn what their handwriting says about them and how you can apply it to your life. You will learn how handwriting reveals:
-- What motivates people beneath the facade they show the world
-- What they really think of themselves, both publicly and privately
-- How they're likely to behave in any given situation
-- Whether they're likely to achieve their goals
-- And much more

Used in more than 1,500 businesses nationwide to determine a job applicant's personality profile, graphology is a highly respected tool. Now you can discover how easy it is to understand the hidden truths locked within your handwriting. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 305 pages
• Publisher: Seaver Books; 1st edition (January 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805005862
• ISBN-13: 978-0805005868
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,863,340 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #82 in Books > Self-Help > Handwriting Analysis

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun to read!!, April 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Handwriting and Personality (Mass Market Paperback)

The author had provided lively examples throughout the book as she illustrated the basic concept of graphology. Review exercises also helped in checking the understanding of the readers towards each of the topics. This is the first book for me on graphology and I have fallen in love with this "Art of Graphology"!!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great read, August 28, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Handwriting and Personality: How Graphology Reveals What Makes People Tick (Hardcover)

this was an excellent book. It really made me interested in graphology. Ann Mahony goes into great detail to show us how our handwriting is the blueprint of our thoughts and how it is reflected in our personality. She explains how word spacing, line width, writing pressure, word size, word slant, style, and signature all ties into our personality, who we are privatly and publicly. I recomend this book to anyone who is remotely intersted in graphology or just seeking for insight to understand people more. Graphology is a very detailed science but it is so easy to learn.

5.0 out of 5 stars Handwriting & Personality attempts to make a valid case for including graphology as a recognized instrument of psychology, January 29, 2010

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Laura Brose "writer of the Our Haunted Island... (Staten Island, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Handwriting and Personality (Mass Market Paperback)

Though this book is structured around a literary contrivance; that of a dinner party with diverse invitees, it provides a lot of useful information shedding light on how many different character traits show up in peoples' handwriting, as well as numerous samples depicting the different ways in which the handwriting traits discussed play out in writers of different ages and backgrounds.
Though several things, such as the description of some of the dinner party fare, render this book dated, it is safe to say that the author's decision to stay away from examples of celebrities' handwriting, on the grounds using well-known personages as examples detracts form the mission of illustrating the emotional states and personality traits depicted in the handwriting samples, makes it less overtly dated than some other books of this kind.
I recommend a careful reading of the front matter, as the writer credibly and carefully links the practice of graphology to the science(?) of mainstream, Establishment-accepted psychology.