For more about GCG, preview the article in the Jan. 2000 issue of Leaders Magazine. With the arrival of the computer age, handwriting analysis, one of the oldest psychological studies, has leaped into the 21st century. As an artful science patronized by royalty and aristocracy in Europe and the Near East, handwriting analysis (or graphology, as it's called in the trade) was for centuries a laborious, painstaking search for the indications of personality in the marks made by writing instruments on a surface. Now handwriting's many slopes, slants, squiggles, loops, dashes, slashes, pressures, gestures, snarls, blotches, blips, points, angles, volumes, harmonies, attempted erasures, slips, nips, jabs, underlines, overlines, fatness, lightness, geegaws, bows, double-bows, waves, sweeps and fluidity . . . they all can be recognized, measured, counted, digitized, analoged and, within seconds, printed out into a graphology report that amazes intelligent and skeptical readers because the interpretations are so clearly accurate and useful. At a recent major meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Washington, D.C., more than 4,300 psychiatrists and other mental health workers volunteered their handwriting for analysis. Their response to the reports ranged from "highly impressed" to "frankly astounded." By and large, the psychiatrists found the reports about themselves to be so on-the-mark that several of these physicians now use handwriting analysis reports as a clue list for early intake diagnosis and analysis. Major American and European companies now require a handwriting sample with other pre-employment documents. Handwriting analysis earns an almost perfect score as a non-discriminatory employment test: handwriting does not reveal gender, race, religious affiliations, mode of dress, age and so forth. What handwriting analysis does reveal [among 300 traits of character] are thinking patterns, achievement traits, communications abilities and skills, levels of stress, possible addictions, certain potential physical problems, and tendencies towards secrecy, deception, self-deception and excessive fantasy. Graphology Consulting Group (GCG) provides handwriting analysis services to companies, organizations and individuals worldwide. GCG is a world leader in:   Executive-level graphology reports for upper management hiring.   "Live entertainment" Computerized Handwriting Analysis Program (CHAP) as a booth traffic increaser and powerful marketing tool for trade shows.   Direct mail sales programs that combine potent advertising and entertainment.   Large-scale employee screening to narrow candidate fields down to the few best.   Integrity screening for security.   Sheila Kurtz, MGA (Master of Graphology), president of GCG, has brought together an association of expert graphologists, psychologists, computer programmers, graphics designers and production managers who are opening up frontiers in psychology and marketing through handwriting analysis. "Handwriting analysis is a way to recognize and reach for the highest potentials in human beings," says Ms. Kurtz. "Handwriting analysis can give us significant psychological clues to the person in our lives we can control best: ourselves. Handwriting analysis deciphers our brain writing and permits us to glimpse the true setting of our subconscious mind, which is much larger and fuller than our conscious mind. And what it does for us it also does for others. Handwriting analysis is destined to become a ubiquitous tool for therapy and evaluation in the next few decades." With this Graphologyconsulting.com website, GCG is launching a global campaign for news, research, opinion, experience, theory and practice of graphology. This site will grow exponentially over the next months, and you are invited to join in the fun. Send your ideas, comments, suggestions, questions and literary contributions to [email protected] and you will get a speedy reply. You are welcome to explore.