ok it is the holiday season people ask me all the time, Leah what are your book recommendations,
your sources etc. I use online pdfs which I will link in the description I also have a huge basis
of knowledge from binge watching other graphology videos and hearing as many different perspectives
as I can, so that I can see what sort of things are shared among graphologists as well as what
stuff is different from different graphological perspectives. so ive watches interviews,
videos, I also have the online pdfs which I reference and also I test this stuff out myself
and I put this stuff in practice, and I see ok this stuff stays consistent, the stuff doesn't
but never the less its still very helpful to have books I use a limited amount of online pdfs that
are free but I thought, my channel is making money now which thank you!! I have money now,
not alot but today were gonna spend money on some graphology textbooks were not gonna break the bank
but were gone do it and I have several carts filled up and im gonna show you the research I did
in order to figure out which books to buy, which books not to buy. anyway this all started because
I got reached out to by one of the chairs form the American handwriting analysis foundation
and I went on their website to like peruse and I was like oh yes I have been here before because I
remember going on to their study documents. gosh I really should have gotten them to like sponsor
me before doing this but the cool thing about their website - the American handwriting analysis
foundation - ill put a link tp them in the description but they have under education/research
they have study documents. they also have approved courses, stuff on certification,
publication, research, what I find helpful is study documents. im in education and research and
then they've got all these things and they have recommended reading at the bottom. so they have an
appendix. and this appendix is very helpful bc it has everything in formal citations so you an see
the authors the title the publication company where it was published and most importantly
the date. thats like the most important thing so they have a graphology section they have a bunch
of graphology sources, and thy have a psychology and they have some other stuff but yeah were gonna
be looking at graphology textbooks. and actually was looking at this earlier and check out my cart
I went to the he who must not be named website and I just wanted to see what it would look like if I
found every book that I could In their appendix on amazon and added it to my cart just to see
like a rough ballpark of how much money I would be spending. I would be spending $252.54. and alot of
these are paperback used. this isn't graphology this is actually a different book I was looking
at about analyzing children's art but yeah some of them are very cheap and some of them are very
expensive. so thats kindof why you see the realty high price tag. but anyway were not gonna do that
were not gonna drop 250 dollars like if I wanted to flex and make a really youtubery video and just
be like ok f%ck everything im gonna spend over half of this months paycheck on graphology books
just to flex in a video, not im not gonna do that. because if you look at the dates as I mentioned
earlier some of them are very old you've got stuff as old as '68, '86, '75, 1950, and here's the
thing, some of these dates aren't correct actually because I was on amazon looking at some of these
books and some of these books are actually from alot earlier than that like for example I think
this one it says something else but its actually '47 because the date on the appendix idk what
that date is referencing but I think its referencing the print date of that specific
reprint. so if its like a reprint of a book then its gonna have a different date versus if its the
original when it was originally published not when it was printed so anyways my point is some of the
books on this appendix are extremely extremely old. which I think can be helpful especially if
your trying to learn like the history of graphology and like where these concepts
come from and thank it is important to know about some of these people like especially Robert Saudek
I hope im pronouncing his name right but he did alot of experiments handwriting what in like 1930?
or something but anyway- so like its important to know about these early works to a certaIn
extent but for the most part especially the kind of graphology that I do which is very
modern use alot of graphologists won't analyze print they dont really look at the new generation
and how we write. anyways. my point is you dont need to spend 250 $ on books I actually have a
fun alternative. I wrote down on a piece of paper some of the newest works in this list that im most
interested in im most interested in anything thats like within the last 20 years. I ws interested
in ma heifers book from 2008 im interested in max pulvers book on symbolism in handwriting from 1994
so thats a little old, but I was interested in this book A because its symbolism which is cool
because then I can use some of that knowledge and apply some of that to drawings at least that was
my thought process. also its published in England and you know alot of these books especially the
current ones are published in the US and im like id rather have a different perspective e because
English people do write differently also its like semi current so I was invested in that book and I
was interested in sheila Lowe the complete idiot's guide to handwriting analysis second edition
from 2004 im not a. complete idiot so I was kind of on the fence about buying it but I found it or
really cheap on this like second hand website im looking for that one And then Felix Klein
gestalt graphology form 2007 A its form 2007 so its earlier but also gestalt! because I talk about
gestalt all the time very much resonate with the idea of applying gestalt principles to graphology
thats like basically what im talking about when I talk about trait stacking whenever I say like
putting something in context, whenever I say like you know you have keep in mind exceptions.
that way of thinking is basically gestalt. so im gonna show you where I found these books.
ok I found gestalt graphology here from this weird website basically all I did to find
these books is I went on google shopping like google shopping like you go to the shopping tab
lets say im looking for Felix Kleins gestalt graphology, I copy and paSte this section.
and boom there it is and you just double check it s the edition that you're looking for and then you
can see you've got a list of different prices. im gonna buy that one I also found a bunch of other
books for like super c heap look at those low low prices im sure shipping is gonna be- oh wait free
us shipping our 9 $ okay lets go discover books lets go im just gonna show which books im getting.
im getting gestalt graphology, im getting the definitive book of handwriting analysis I wanted
this one specifically because its says detecting forgeries a huge part of how graphology is used
is detecting forgeries. especially like fraud anyways so I was very interested in hat book, even
though im not a complete idiot I wanted to get the complete idiots guide to handwriting analysis
because it was super cheap and it was current. otherwise I really like this basic book this
basic book is like my favorite book that exists on graphology thats not true I think I have another
online pdf that I like but really really really like this book even though some of the letter
speciffic traits are a bit much for me meaning I think that you really need to be careful with
letter specific traits because you can get carried away and then it'll pull your analysis in a
direction it was never meant to go in if your just relying on letter specific traits but whatever im
getting this one even though I have it as a pdf online I would like a physical copy so I can open
the book and show you. also its like so cheap so how much are we spending today lets do the math
12.68 on discover books then were spending 16.23 and I wanted symbolism in Handwriting 17.30 so
this is probably the most expensive book lets see how much money I spend today im spending 46.21
well im gonna put my credit card info off camera obviously but anyways short sweet vid but I wanted
to provide these links references etc as a place for people to go to this video can also share with
you my thought process when buying books. I like amazon even though I dont like supporting Jeff
Bezos one of the reasons I like amazon is bc it tells you something about the author like this
is a book I might buy anyways because I think it looks interesting cause A its new but also
the description is like so nice anyways, wanted to make this video because I get alot
of questions about sources and where bio go when buying books this appendix is just a really good
jumping off point because all of these are like peer reviewed etc. this appendix is like approved
by a handwriting analysis foundation whatever ill make apart 2 of this video where I like
review all the books that I bought but for now im gonna check out ok bye see you next time!!