Handwriting Analysis
Systems of handwriting analysis
Graphoanalysis
Psychogram

Graphoanalysis (a registered trademark of the International Graphoanalysis Society) is a system of Handwriting Analysis that falls within the approach of Integrative Graphology. The core tenet is that every stroke of handwriting has a meaning which can be understood only within the context of the other strokes present in the handwriting.

Basic Traits are the meanings that are ascribed to individual stroke structures. These scores are derived from the frequency and intensity of the stroke structure.

Evaluated Traits are the meanings ascribed to clusters of individual stroke structures. This indicates how the trait is made manifest in the personality.

A professional Graphoanalyst bases their report exclusively on the Evaluated Trait scores.

The term psychogram was coined by Hollingworth in 1922, and now refers, in general, to any chart on which personality traits are marked according to a guiding psychological viewpoint. Such a profile, showing the quantitative relation between the magnitudes of all the traits concerned, has closer kinship with the whole personality than have any of the separate factors.

As a psychological "map", the contribution of several different factors to the personality as a whole can be more easily understood. With this chart, the same group of personality traits can be measured in a number of different persons, classifying different types of profile rather than analyzing the participant traits.

In graphology, it refers to a specific system of handwriting analysis that falls within the approach of Holistic Graphology.