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Encyclopedia For Handwriting Analysts Volume Sixteen By Dr. Erika M. Karohs
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TABLE OF CONTENTS PROCRASTINATION.......................................................................................................1 Reasons for procrastination........................................................................................................................1 Temporary over-involvement...................................................................................................................................1 Permanent over-involvement....................................................................................................................................2 Deliberateness..................................................................................................................................................................3 A relaxed attitude............................................................................................................................................................4 Procrastination as a defense .......................................................................................................................5 Internal consequences ..................................................................................................................................................5 External consequences .................................................................................................................................................5 The roots of defensive procrastination ...................................................................................................6 Fear of failure....................................................................................................................................................................6 Fear of success............................................................................................................................................................... 10 Fear of competition ..................................................................................................................................................... 13 Fear of separation........................................................................................................................................................ 15 Fear of attachment....................................................................................................................................................... 18 PROGRESSIVENESS....................................................................................................21 Trait description........................................................................................................................................................... 21 PROTECTION STROKES..............................................................................................28 Protection stroke turning backwards over the word...................................................................... 31 Protection strokes covering the lower zone ....................................................................................... 32 Protection strokes in the signature ....................................................................................................... 34 PSEUDO-GARLANDS...................................................................................................36 PSYCHOGRAM .............................................................................................................37 PYCHOLOGICAL (MENTAL) CRUELTY STROKE ......................................................39 PSYCHO-SEXUAL STAGES AND THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX AS SEEN IN HANDWRITING..............................................................................................................40 The graphological meaning of left and right....................................................................................... 41 The Freudian psychosexual stages......................................................................................................... 41 The oral stage ................................................................................................................................................ 42 The spoiled oral character........................................................................................................................................ 42 The frustrated oral character.................................................................................................................................. 46 The anal stage................................................................................................................................................ 50