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.
Although dealing with a gamut of problems, she specializes in working with problems that have been unresponsive to conventional psychotherapy like Obsessive Compulsive Disorders, Attention Deficit Disorder, Anorexia, Depression, and Anxiety. Projective personality assessments let her access personality style and strengths by analyzing writing samples.
During her clinical work, she has found that any type of disruptive psychological symptom is never ever the actual reason individuals are in therapy. The obvious symptoms are actually the unconscious mind's effort to remedy yet another issue, one hidden from sight.
She shared various examples from her experience. In one situation, for instance, she had worked with a girl who was convinced that she had HIV despite the fact that all medical examinations proved otherwise. Utilizing graphology and various other assessment devices, she discovered that the girl's real need was to get more attention from her family.
Final Thoughts
Graphology, or handwriting analysis, is a discipline which teaches practitioners how to really see "under the hood." Poizner also noted that graphology should not be used in isolation, but always in relation with other assessment measures.
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.
Although dealing with a gamut of problems, she specializes in working with problems that have been unresponsive to conventional psychotherapy like Obsessive Compulsive Disorders, Attention Deficit Disorder, Anorexia, Depression, and Anxiety. Projective personality assessments let her access personality style and strengths by analyzing writing samples.
During her clinical work, she has found that any type of disruptive psychological symptom is never ever the actual reason individuals are in therapy. The obvious symptoms are actually the unconscious mind's effort to remedy yet another issue, one hidden from sight.
She shared various examples from her experience. In one situation, for instance, she had worked with a girl who was convinced that she had HIV despite the fact that all medical examinations proved otherwise. Utilizing graphology and various other assessment devices, she discovered that the girl's real need was to get more attention from her family.
Final Thoughts
Graphology, or handwriting analysis, is a discipline which teaches practitioners how to really see "under the hood." Poizner also noted that graphology should not be used in isolation, but always in relation with other assessment measures.
About the Author:
Find out more about Struggling Teens. Lon Woodbury has the recorded the entire interview on his weekly L.A. Talk Radio Show show for people to listen to at any time.
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