Andrea McNichol is one of the leading forensic graphologists and examiners of questioned documents in the United States, and a highly respected researcher in the field. McNichol studied graphology at the Sorbonne and at the University of Heidelberg. After receiving a bachelor's degree and teaching credential from the UC Berkeley, she undertook an eight-year study in conjunction with psychiatrists and other medical doctors, and criminologists, correlating graphological characteristics with mental and physical conditions, and forensic handwriting comparison. In 1975, McNichol designed the first college-level graphology course at an accredited U.S. university, UCLA. Since that time she has taught courses on graphology at eight campuses of the University of California. She has been consulted on such celebrated cases as the Hitler Diaries, the Billionaires Boys' Club murder, the Howard Hughes Will Case, the Josef Mengele Nazi War Criminal case, the OJ Simpson and JonBenet Ramsey murder cases. Andrea has been featured in such publications as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Psychology Today, U.S. News and World Report, Time Magazine, and has appeared on numerous national television programs, including most of the major network news shows, Good Morning America, CNN, the Tonight Show and Geraldo Rivera. The author of HANDWRITING ANALYSIS: Putting It to Work for You, Hidden Messages in Your Children's Writing and Advanced Studies in Graphology, along with numerous technical articles, Andrea has been published in a wide variety of books, magazines, and other publications. In 1980, McNichol founded the Los Angeles-based firm Graphology Consultants International, specializing in examination of questioned documents and behavioral profiling for businesses and law enforcement agencies. Andrea regularly consults with several Fortune 500 companies and other corporations in the U.S., Mexico and Canada. She conducts training seminars throughout the world in the use of graphology, and forensic handwriting identification, and is one of the most sought-after speakers and teachers of the science in the United States today.

CONTENTS,
Acknowledgments IX
Introduction xi
Last-Chance Page Xill
PART I: GETTING YOUR HANDS WET
1 Fun Quiz 3
2 Explanation of Answers 9
3 What Does Getting the Right Answers Mean? 19
PART II: THE SCIENCE OF GRAPHOLOGY
4 Handwriting as "Brain Prints" 23
5 Science Quiz 26
6 Graphology and the Three Facets of Man 32
7 Graphological Deductions: The Five Ways They Are Made 41
8 Summary: Graphology as a Science 54
PART III: AN IN-DEPTH LOOK AT SOME SPECIFIC HANDWRITING TRAITS
9 A Few Things to Know Before Getting Started 59
10 Slant 63
11 Baselines 93 12 Margins 102
13 Spacing 120
14 Pressure 130
15 Size 140
16 Speed 152
17 Zones 157
18 Printing vs. Connected Writing 177
19 Connecting Strokes 188
20 Signatures 200
PART IV: PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS
21 High vs. Low Functioning Intelligence 231
22 Extroversion vs. Introversion 236
23 Strong vs. Weak Work Drive 240
24 Honesty vs. Dishonesty 244
PART V: TRYING YOUR HAND AT IT
25 Your First Analysis 255
PART VI: THE USES OF GRAPHOLOGY
26 Graphology and Psychology 261
27 Graphology and Social Work 265
28 Graphology and Medicine 268
29 Graphology and Education 271
30 Graphology and Business 273
31 Graphology and Personal Uses 278
32 Graphology and Crime Solving 280
PART VII: GRAPHOLOGY AND YOUR LIFE
33 The Future of Graphology 303
34 Those Last Few Tidbits 311
35 Analyzing Your Own Handwriting 314
36 Where Do You Go from Here? 318
PART VIII: A BIT ABOUT DOODLES
37 Doodles 321
Bibliography 340
About the Authors 343
Index 344