Monday, January 14, 2012
Interview by Lon Woodbury
In this week's L.A. Talk Radio Show episode of Struggling Teens, Annette Poizner, who is a clinical social worker with an extensive private practice in Toronto, Canada, talked to host Lon Woodbury about the job of Graphology in clinical evaluations. Poizner combined her skills as a psychotherapist with graphology, and found that it appreciably helped her in her work with patients. Graphology is a personality evaluation method that uses an individual's handwriting to understand their character.
Background
Annette Poizner is a Columbia-trained social worker. For more than 20 years, she has used graphology for projective character evaluations in her clinical practice. Her doctoral dissertation at the University of Toronto, looked into how graphology could be used within psychotherapy. She has been recognized as a Master Graphologists by the American Handwriting Analysis Foundation. Additionally, she is a charter member of the Milton H Erickson Institute of Toronto. In her practice, she focuses on emotional assessments, Ericksonian psychiatric therapy and hypnosis.
What Is Graphology?
After introducing his guest and mentioning her latest book, "Clinical Graphology: An Interpretive Manual for Mental Health Practitioners," Woodbury began the interview by commenting that graphology is often considered by the general public as a parlor trick and wondered how it could be used in a clinical setting. Poizner explained that handwriting analysis and projective personality assessments like analyzing dreams, drawings and stories allowed her to get to know her clients better.
Although dealing with a wide spectrum of clients with different issues, she specializes in working with issues that have been particularly unresponsive to typical psychiatric therapy, for instance issues like Obsessive Compulsive Disorders, Attention Deficit Disorder, Anorexia, Depression, and Anxiousness. Projective personality evaluations let her access character flaws and strengths by analyzing a variety of writing samples.
In the course of her clinical experience, she has actually come to consider any disruptive symptom as a cover-up - it is never the real reason why people are in treatment. The evident symptoms are actually the subconscious mind's attempt to solve some other issue, one that is hidden from view.
She illustrated various case studies. In one case, for example, she had helped a girl who was convinced that she had HIV when all medical tests proved negative. Using graphology and other assessment tools, she was able to discover the girl's underlying need to get more love and attention from her family.
Conclusion
Handwriting analysis is a discipline which teaches professionals the best ways to see what is really going on beneath the surface symptoms. However, graphology cannot be used in isolation in assessments. It has to be combined with other evaluation methodologies.
Interview by Lon Woodbury
In this week's L.A. Talk Radio Show episode of Struggling Teens, Annette Poizner, who is a clinical social worker with an extensive private practice in Toronto, Canada, talked to host Lon Woodbury about the job of Graphology in clinical evaluations. Poizner combined her skills as a psychotherapist with graphology, and found that it appreciably helped her in her work with patients. Graphology is a personality evaluation method that uses an individual's handwriting to understand their character.
Background
Annette Poizner is a Columbia-trained social worker. For more than 20 years, she has used graphology for projective character evaluations in her clinical practice. Her doctoral dissertation at the University of Toronto, looked into how graphology could be used within psychotherapy. She has been recognized as a Master Graphologists by the American Handwriting Analysis Foundation. Additionally, she is a charter member of the Milton H Erickson Institute of Toronto. In her practice, she focuses on emotional assessments, Ericksonian psychiatric therapy and hypnosis.
What Is Graphology?
After introducing his guest and mentioning her latest book, "Clinical Graphology: An Interpretive Manual for Mental Health Practitioners," Woodbury began the interview by commenting that graphology is often considered by the general public as a parlor trick and wondered how it could be used in a clinical setting. Poizner explained that handwriting analysis and projective personality assessments like analyzing dreams, drawings and stories allowed her to get to know her clients better.
Although dealing with a wide spectrum of clients with different issues, she specializes in working with issues that have been particularly unresponsive to typical psychiatric therapy, for instance issues like Obsessive Compulsive Disorders, Attention Deficit Disorder, Anorexia, Depression, and Anxiousness. Projective personality evaluations let her access character flaws and strengths by analyzing a variety of writing samples.
In the course of her clinical experience, she has actually come to consider any disruptive symptom as a cover-up - it is never the real reason why people are in treatment. The evident symptoms are actually the subconscious mind's attempt to solve some other issue, one that is hidden from view.
She illustrated various case studies. In one case, for example, she had helped a girl who was convinced that she had HIV when all medical tests proved negative. Using graphology and other assessment tools, she was able to discover the girl's underlying need to get more love and attention from her family.
Conclusion
Handwriting analysis is a discipline which teaches professionals the best ways to see what is really going on beneath the surface symptoms. However, graphology cannot be used in isolation in assessments. It has to be combined with other evaluation methodologies.
About the Author:
Lon Woodbury created Struggling Teens to help families. He has the recorded this interview on his L.A. Talk Radio Show show for easy access at any time.
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