PARIS: Caroline de la Tournelle says her ability to decipher handwriting has influenced whether hundreds of people got jobs, helped police track death threats and even saved a child that was being abused.
Graphology remains a controversial topic, and has fallen out of favour in recent years — even in France, where it was widely used in the 20th century to gain psychological insights into individuals, especially for job applications.
But in the right hands, practitioners and their clients say it can be a useful tool.
“When I look at a piece of writing, I have to…