Dijon ( France ) April 18-21, 2002

PROVISIONAL PROGRAM

by Marie-Thérèse Christians

Dear friends,

As you already know, a team of French graphologists, led by Monique Riley, is currently working on a script with a team of German and Swiss graphologists, led by Christine Siegenthaler. Their results will be presented at our Dijon Colloquium on Saturday, April 20 th . The purpose of this exercise is to allow us to be more aware of the similarities and differences between the use of the French and the German method.

by Dafna Yalon et al

As part of its monthly sessions, the Psychodiagnostic Section of the Israeli Association of Psychologists conducted an encounter aimed at investigating the relative potential of various psychological tests that were totally context-free. Each of six evaluators were given a single test carried out by the same subject, administered in the course of a psychological-didactic diagnosis performed by Eliora Saruf, a psychologist. To avoid possible “contamination”, the only parameters provided were the subject's gender (male) and his age (20), as well as the fact that he is right-handed.

by Dafna Yalon

I have always considered collaboration with psychologists as the crucial focus in my graphological work as a counselor. Regretfully, I have not studied Psychology at university. Instead, I studied Biochemistry and Genetics, and had a very demanding carreer as a Ph.D. student, when my first son was born. I took a year off, to raise him and realized that I did not want to go back to the world of test-tubes and petri-dishes, in which I was searching for the secret of life. The reaon was a graphology course, which I had been taking for fun during this period. It became an obssession and a constant pleasure, which lingered on for the last 24 years. Ever since I am learning the new and varied secrets of life that motivate different human beings, and I feel that I'm still at the beginning of this fascinating search.