Answers to Legal Questions Reg Handwriting Analysis

Handwriting analysis the science of understanding the character and personality from one’s handwriting, has enjoyed increased popularity and increased use over the last decade. With the change in frequency and intensity of the use of handwriting analysis, several legal questions have arisen. This article will attempt to deal with some of the most frequently asked questions on this science. Because state laws vary from...

"Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one sees the stars."- Frederick Langbridge, A Cluster of Quiet Thoughts

If you’ve placed second in a writing contest, will you jump for joy and push for better results the next time or will you be discouraged and find an excuse not to join again?

In life, you are always filled with choices. You may opt to have a pessimist’s view and live a self-defeated life or you may decide to...

Understanding the emotions of your child is extremely important as you are one of the most important people in his life.

When he is about three years old, these emotions begin to really come into focus and he becomes aware of feelings of sadness, joy, love, fear, disappointment, anger, happiness, caring and hatred.

Babies have emotions as well but they are mainly elementary emotions such as pleasure, fear, pain, discomfort and basically anything else that relates...

Eric Berne, the founder of Transactional Analysis developed the PAC model, the three ego states, Parent, Adult and Child. These are a mixture of behaviours, thoughts and feelings.

The Parent ego state, or exteropsyche - is a state in which people think and behave like their own parental figures did in their childhood. When in the Parent ego state people will often tell you "You are not allowed to do that", or "This is not good!". The Parent ego state can be...

Psychological Abuse, which is also known as emotional abuse is when a person harms another person through emotional or mental anguish which is psychologically harmful. People always say that “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me”, but words do hurt people because there are different kinds of people in the world.

Emotional abuse is happening everywhere and there are various forms of it. Most common of these abuses would be work related...

Helen Keller has said that “the only way to get to the other side is to go through the door.”  This is certainly true in the work of transforming grief into healing and growth. This process involves allowing ourselves to feel the intense emotions of grief – sadness, anger, despair and other difficult emotions, as well as tapping into our internal strengths and external sources of support and ultimately finding new ways to stay connected to our departed loved...

What Your Drugs Demonstrate:

Using drugs reflects a lack of self-content; the particular favored drug is taken to (erroneously) fill that lack.

Amphetamines:

Amphetamines attack the central nervous system. You want to be up, especially sexually, and in more ways than one. But as much as you travel upward, when you descend, you inevitably triple the distance downward.

Amyl Nitrite (Poppers):

Amyl Nitrite are capsules that are popped right into the nose,...

Most people today are familiar with the basics of how a computer works. You have two sides of the equation, hardware and software. The hardware consists of your processor, hard drive, RAM, CD drives and all of the components that make up your physical computer that sits in front of you.

What is less tangible is the software running on that computer. A computer is worthless with out software to instruct it how to operate and communicate with the various components within...

When most people think about mental health, they immediately think about depression, stress and anxiety. People will also think about how the causes of poor mental health, such as someone living in poor conditions, someone living in an abusive situation or someone who is suffering an addiction. There are many things in life that can contribute to poor mental health and there are just as many things a person can do to improve their mental health. Past traumatic events, stress, work,...

Social psychologistSolomon Aschis most famous for conducting what has become known as ‘The Asch Conformity Experiments.’ The aim of these experiments was to determine whether social pressure could cause a person to say something that was obviously wrong in the presence of other conformists.

The Experiment’s Structure

The test subject, who had been told that he was going to participate in a vision test, was put into a group with one or more other...