Universitat Autònoma
de Barcelona
Universidad Autónoma de
Barcelona
Escola de Postgrau
Escuela de Postgrado
POSTGRADUATE
DEGREE IN PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF HANDWRITING, GRAPHOANALYSIS,
GRAPHOPATHOLOGY
AND GRAPHIC PROJECTIVE TESTS
The psychological analysis of handwriting, or graphoanalysis, consists
in the study and practice of advanced graphological techniques which offer a
scientific interpretation of an individual’s personality based on handwriting
and, in part, on doodles and drawings. Through a graphoanalytical personality
diagnosis, one can obtain the percentile of the predominant temperament as well
as character and psychoanalytical combinations, making it possible to offer a
complete report on the psychosomatic, volitional, moral, intellectual and
mental characteristics of the piece of writing being examined.
Despite the fact that scientific graphology has a long, valid tradition
in Europe (mainly in German, Swiss and Italian universities), there are few
specialists in the field, for which reason graphology does not exist in Spain
as its own degree course. However, thanks to the surprisingly positive results
that have been verified by court institutions and the business world, there are
more and more university graduates and professionals from interdisciplinary
fields who are interested in graphoanalysis as an effective analytical tool,
backed up since its beginnings by clinical methodology supported by the medical
field.
This unique, original programme (part of the third cycle of studies at
the UAB) is meant for anyone working in human relations who would like to
specialise in the aforementioned graphoanalytical techniques as a practical
tool for diagnosing character and personality, with various applications:
education (developmental age), work (staff hiring and orientation) and
pathology and criminology (including police and court work: disappearances,
violence and physical abuse, sexual abuse, harassment, suicide, etc.).
Basic Programme Contents
Foundations, principles and
schools of scientific graphology Foundations.
Neurophysiologic bases. Specialisations and spheres of application. Classics,
integrators, innovators, current graphology. Epistemology. General laws to be
applied when psychologically interpreting handwriting. The French school. The
Italian school. The German school. Scientific validation of graphology. Current
topics of research.
The Psychology of Writing
(the foundations of the psychological interpretation of handwriting): Space and graphic organisation. The symbolism of graphic space, graphic
areas. Movement and shape. Rhythm. The dynamics of writing, a reflection of the
dynamics of the personality. Basic rhythm. Signatures and texts. The graphic
context, harmony, balance, writing-type, structure.
Theories in applying psychological analysis of
Personality via handwriting: Personality classifications
used by graphoanalysts.
Graphoanalytical techniques: Augusto Vels and the Spanish School of Graphoanalysis. The systematic methodology:
graphoanalysis’s parameters. Analysis, evaluation, and graphodiagnosis by
character and psychoanalytical typologies: especially, the Vels method and TA
(transactional analysis). Includes the computerised assessment system based on
the Vels method as well as Viñals and Puente's computerised system of
transactional graphoanalysis.
Exercises in scoring
parameters, assessment and classifying Hippocratic temperament (Dr. Periot),
character (Heymans-Le Senne), attitude toward life (Jung), psychic function
(Jung), tension degrees (Dr. Pophal), transactional analysis typologies:
father, critical father, nourishing father, adult, little professor, adapted
child, rebellious adapted child, submissive adapted child and free child
(Viñals and Puente).
Psychological analysis of
children’s and adolescents’ handwriting:
Indications of developmental normality / abnormality. Foundations for applying
Ajuriaguerra scales. Doodles, drawings and writing.
Real examples with graphic samples (writing and drawings) in clinical
histories and psychotherapeutic developments.
Graphopathology: The study of the main signs and graphic combinations that indicate
pathology. How physical pathologies are reflected in writing. Mental
pathologies verified through writing analysis. Practical applications of DSM in
graphoanalysis.
Myokinetic psychodiagnosis
(PMK): Introduction to the work of Emilio Mira y Lopez
and its applications to graphology. Dr Mira y López’s graphic-expressive test
(PMK). Advanced applications of PMK-R.
Psychological analysis of
writing in hiring and orienting staff: Recruitment
and hiring. Signs of rejection in the initial selection process. Predisposition and professional adaptation
through handwriting (assessment by job description). Exercises in recruiting and hiring job applicants based on their
writing and according to the position to be filled.
Juridical and criminological
foundations (Law practical orientation):
Practical concepts in criminology and constitutional, civil and
procedural law (basic human rights, pathology and disability from the juridical
point of view, expert analysis of the psychophysical, mental and criminological
state).
Personality disorders (DSM): The development of symptoms and DSM clinical classifications.
Graphic projective tests: Introduction to and study of the most effective graphic projective
techniques and analysis of important practical examples from judicial work.
Writing analysis and
forensic medicine: Points to be considered
when drawing up expert opinions within the field of forensic medicine and
forensic psychiatry.
Practice in psychological analysis of handwriting: Forensic work. Exploration of psychopathological symptoms. Applications
and practical examples from civil, domestic, criminological, penal and labour-related
aspects. Writing reports.
(Illustration using images of writing samples and drawings. How to
organise the information obtained from graphisms for writing reports. The
drafting of different kinds of reports, both individually and in groups).
Directors
Professor Francisco Viñals Carrera is
member of the World Jurist Association and has been decorated by the Ministry
of Defence. In 1993, he set up the
specialisation in Forensic Handwriting Analysis at the Instituto de Criminología y Cátedra de Derecho Penal at the
Universidad Complutense, local section at Cordoba. This programme of studies
was brought to the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 1996, to the Escuela de Práctica Jurídica (School of
Legal Practice) within the Escuela de
Doctorado y Formación Continuada (School of Doctorate Studies and
Continuing Education), now called the Graduate School. He is member of the
International Police Association and professor at the Escola de Policia de Catalunya (Catalan Police School) and at the EPSI-UAB. He has
collaborated on various alternative draft bills and works as a consultant for
high international authorities in the capacity of institutional commissioner
for training in criminalistics and graphological sciences. In 2003, he was
chosen for “Personatges
de Catalunya” (Important Catalans), and included in volume
XIII of the Història
Contemporània de Catalunya due to the contributions
his work has made to society.
Professor María Luz Puente
Balsells is an anthropologist, criminalist and scientific investigator. She
specialised in forensic research at the Escuela
de Medicina Legal (School of Forensic Medicine) of the Universidad Complutense, in psychological analysis of handwriting
at the Universidad Pontificia de
Salamanca, and in intelligence services at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB). She is coordinating professor of the
studies programmes in Forensic Handwriting Analysis and in Criminalistics,
Information Analysis and Advanced Forensic-Science Techniques at the Graduate
School of the Universitat Autònoma de
Barcelona (UAB). She is professor of scientific techniques applied to
criminal investigation at the Escola de Prevenció i de Seguretat Integral
(School of Accident Prevention and Integrated Safety) at the UAB. She is also a
member of the managing board of the Instituto
de Ciencias del Grafismo, director of the Seminario de Inteligencia Civil y Militar (Seminar on Civil and
Military Intelligence – ADPCI) and vice-president of the Spanish Association of
Consultant Graphologists. Previously she worked as a writer for various media,
taught information studies, and also worked as a professor attached to the Col·legi Oficial de Doctores y
Llicenciats en Filosofia, Lletres i Ciències de Catalunya (Catalan Association of Doctors and Undergraduates in
Philosophy, Arts and Sciences).
Together they have co-authored:
-Diccionario Jurídico-Pericial del Documento Escrito (Legal Dictionary - Expertise in Written Documents), Barcelona, Ed. Herder, 2006
-Análisis de Escritos y Documentos en los Servicios Secretos (The Analysis of
Writings and Documents in the Secret Services), Barcelona, Ed. Herder, 2003
-Pericia Caligráfica Judicial. Práctica, casos y modelos (Forensic Handwriting Analysis: Practice, Examples and Models),
Barcelona, Ed. Herder, 2001
-Psicodiagnóstico por la
Escritura. Grafoanálisis Transaccional (Psychodiagnostic Assessment via
Handwriting: Transactional Graphoanalysis), Barcelona, Ed. Herder, 1999
Professor Josep Llobet Aguado
is a jurist, judge pro tempore at the
Audiencia Provincial (provincial criminal court) of Barcelona, and professor of
Civil Law working at the Department of Private Law at the Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona. He directs doctorate courses at the university and
has represented the UAB in training judges in other countries
Co-author
of:
-El deber de información de los contratos, Madrid, Editorial Marcial
Pons, 1996
-Comentarios a la ley sobre condiciones generales de contratación,
Madrid, Editorial Tecnos, 1999
Secretariat tel. 93 321.57.48
(answering machine)
Lecturers: The team of teachers on this programme, apart from Prof. Francisco
Viñals and Prof. María Luz Puente who will teach and supervise most of the
practical classes, include distinguished professors such as Josep
Maria Tous and Santiago Estaún; important doctors and psychiatrists who are
also graphoanalysts, such as Prof. Buenaventura Deusedes and Prof. Antonio Ruiz
de Azúa; exceptional psychologists who are also graphoanalysts, such as Prof.
Lynn Pérez-Calvo and Prof. Teresa Pont; as well as judges and experts in
graphology from the scientific police.
There will be many visiting professors – representatives from the most
prestigious graphology institutions in Spain – such as María Dolores Mora, Jordi
Morera, Manuel J. Moreno, and F. Flores; important professionals from abroad
are expected to participate as well; there will be additional support and
special contributions made by honorary professors such as Joseph Seiler, Silvio
Lena, Pacífico Cristofanelli, A. Gauthier and Pedro-José Foglia.
Target
students: Psychiatrists,
doctors, anthropologists, psychotherapists, social workers, certified nurses,
criminologists, qualified detectives, managers or specialists in human resources,
teachers, educators, certified judicial expert analysts, specialists and
leaders working in public and private safety.
An undergraduate degree (licenciatura
or diplomatura) is a prerequisite;
persons with the appropriate professional background or with a foreign degree
may however be allowed to participate at the programme directors’ discretion;
in those cases, upon successful completion of the programme they will be given
a certificate stating that they followed the postgraduate-degree programme,
noting the classes, class hours and credits.
Objectives of the programme: Students will learn to analyse writing as well as other tests and
graphic expressions, using specific and systematic methodologies for gaining a
deeper understanding of the individual in terms of personality, development,
relationships, pathologies and criminology. For each case, students will be
provided with effective tools for understanding individuals through the
parameters of graphic expression. The techniques used are the result of the
coming together of validated methods employed in the various European schools
(French, German, Swiss and Italian) with special emphasis on the
graphoanalytical techniques derived from the Spanish school founded by Augusto
Vels and currently under development by Professor Viñals and Professor Puente.
The Universitat Autònoma de
Barcelona’s goal is to offer an intense education with specialist knowledge
of the subject matter, such that it may be applied practically.
Total hours: 750 h. (including practice time and tutorials),
equivalent to 30 ECTS
Schedule: Fridays, 5pm to 9pm (January 2009
and ends October 2009, with breaks at Easter and summer). Students must attend
all classes, but a special group requiring only part-time attendance might be
set up for students living outside of Catalonia with experience in the
profession, if UAB has tutors available.
Place: In the historical
building “Casa Convalescència”
within the Hospital de Sant Pau, c/ Sant Antoni Maria Claret, 171 (at the corner of c/ Sant Quintí), 08041 Barcelona. Ergonomic classrooms
fitted with projectors.
(Public transportation: Bus: 15, 19, 20, 45, 47, 50 and 51; Metro line
5, “Hospital de Sant Pau”, or line 4, “Guinardó”)
Pre-registration: Send an e-mail to the director, María Luz Puente
Balsells: info@grafologiauniversitaria.com
or send your information by ordinary mail to:
Dirección de Estudios de Peritaje Grafopsicológico Prof. Mª
Luz Puente, E. Postgrado, UAB, Campus Barcelona Apt. 89015, 08080 Barcelona, or
by fax: (+34) 93 323 24 71.Pre-registration must be confirmed personally,
as must all enrolment procedures (since space is limited, enrolment will follow
the order in which students pre-register).
Enrolment: November-December 2008 (you will be informed
on what days the enrolment procedure will be carried out)
Price: 1,200 euros.
Rights: status of a student in the
third cycle of studies at the UAB with student card and access to libraries.
Teaching materials: students
will be given material throughout the course including notes, study samples,
milimetric templates, CDs, articles, news items, database information and
specialist reading lists.
Tutorials: includes
face-to-face as well as virtual supporting tutorials.
Assessment: Ongoing (students will each have to prepare as many exercises and
reports as they are given individually or in work groups, until reaching a
level high enough to merit a passing grade).
DEGREE/DIPLOMA IN PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF
HANDWRITING
Once the student has passed the course, they will be given the following
credentials: an official academic
document from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona stating that the student
has passed the programme in PSYCHOLOGICAL
ANALYSIS OF HANDWRITING, GRAPHOANALYSIS, GRAPHOPATHOLOGY AND GRAPHIC PROJECTIVE
TESTS from the Graduate School,
with the classes, hours and credits detailed.
The student may request a diploma for the postgraduate degree from the
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; in the case of those students who were
accepted into the programme by the directors thanks to their professional
career or due to having a foreign degree that has not been officially
recognised by the Spanish government, a certification will be given of having
followed the postgraduate degree studies.
These studies are sufficient for entering the Spanish Association of
Consultant Graphologists; members of the association are given certification
and professional proof of accreditation.
UAB building
-Casa Convalescència-
Telf: (34) 93. 321.57.48 - (34) 93.433.50.00
http://www.grafologiauniversitaria.com - mariluzpuente@hotmail.com