Graphology in Academia.

An investigation into the inclusion of graphology in education

By

Nigel Bradley

1. Academics want to investigate graphology

2. Academics have already investigated graphology

3. Academics do investigate graphology now.

4. Graphologists want to collaborate with academics.

5. Graphologists are reluctant to collaborate with academics.

6. Various academic disciplines are relevant to graphology

They include law, psychology, sociology etc.

7. Graphology has been included in education in

different ways:• description,

• Evaluation,

• Experimentation

• by staff…

• By post-graduates…

• By undergraduates…

• and even by school pupils.

8. Projects vary in time…

• 2 hours,

• 2 weeks,

• 1 month,

• one semester

• rarely longer, and this is a problem

9. Teaching of graphology has taken place at different levels

• one lecture,

• short course,

• up to 3 years

• part time and full time

• Société Française de Graphologie• Urbino• Lumsa (Rome)• Ministry of Education of Argentina • Emerson University College,

Buenos Aires. 

• Loughborough; • Universidad de Valencia, • Universidad Complutense de Madrid • (Estudios Criminología and Facultad de

Medecina), • Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, • Universidad de Córdoba, • Universidad de Barcelona;

• Heidelberg, • Cologne, Summer schools • Prescott College in Arizona• Munich,  Fribourg, • Hamburg, Bielefeld, • Berlin; Messina.

My conclusion is that…

Graphology needs to be present in academia…

to develop …

and to be accepted as a legitimate tool.

Graphology in Academia.

An investigation into the inclusion of graphology in education

By Nigel Bradley, University of Westminster. Email bradlen@wmin.ac.uk

Prepared for a lecture at the International Graphological Colloquium in Dijon, France

20 April 2002