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 visitor to the listening audience and mentioning her latest book, "Clinical Graphology: An Interpretive Manual for Mental Health Practitioners," Woodbury asked how it was possible to use graphology in a clinical setting, especially when most people consider it a parlor trick. Poizner discussed the role of handwriting analysis in letting her get to know her clients better. She used it in combination with other projective personality assessments like dream interpretation and analyzing stories and drawings.
Dealing with a very wide range of issues, she specializes in working with patients who have been particularly unresponsive to typical psychotherapy. These patients have issues like depression and high anxiety, as well as issues like Obsessive Compulsive Disorders, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), and Anorexia. Graphology allowed her to understand the underlying issues behind these disorders by analyzing various writing samples.
In the course of her clinical experience, she had discovered that any disruptive symptom may be a problem but it is never real reason why people are in therapy. The obvious symptoms are actually the unconscious mind's attempt to solve another problem, hidden from view, but effectively managed by seemingly unproductive patterns of thinking, feeling or behaving.
She talked about various case studies. In one case, for example, she had actually helped a young lady who was convinced that she had HIV despite the fact that all medical examinations proved otherwise. Making use of graphology and other evaluation devices, she had discovered the girls underlying psychological desire to get even more love and attention from her family.
Final Thoughts
Graphology, or handwriting analysis, is a discipline which helps health care specialists discover underlying psychological issues. Poizner suggested that graphology should be used in conjunction with other evaluation methods.
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 visitor to the listening audience and mentioning her latest book, "Clinical Graphology: An Interpretive Manual for Mental Health Practitioners," Woodbury asked how it was possible to use graphology in a clinical setting, especially when most people consider it a parlor trick. Poizner discussed the role of handwriting analysis in letting her get to know her clients better. She used it in combination with other projective personality assessments like dream interpretation and analyzing stories and drawings.
Dealing with a very wide range of issues, she specializes in working with patients who have been particularly unresponsive to typical psychotherapy. These patients have issues like depression and high anxiety, as well as issues like Obsessive Compulsive Disorders, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), and Anorexia. Graphology allowed her to understand the underlying issues behind these disorders by analyzing various writing samples.
In the course of her clinical experience, she had discovered that any disruptive symptom may be a problem but it is never real reason why people are in therapy. The obvious symptoms are actually the unconscious mind's attempt to solve another problem, hidden from view, but effectively managed by seemingly unproductive patterns of thinking, feeling or behaving.
She talked about various case studies. In one case, for example, she had actually helped a young lady who was convinced that she had HIV despite the fact that all medical examinations proved otherwise. Making use of graphology and other evaluation devices, she had discovered the girls underlying psychological desire to get even more love and attention from her family.
Final Thoughts
Graphology, or handwriting analysis, is a discipline which helps health care specialists discover underlying psychological issues. Poizner suggested that graphology should be used in conjunction with other evaluation methods.
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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