Revista del Instituto de Ciencias del Grafismo – Nº 11 SPECIAL INTERNATIONAL 2011 Magazine of the Institute of Graphological Sciences

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C o n t e n t s CURRENT UNIVERSITY EDUCATION SYSTEM IN SPAIN AND EUROPE...............................................................3 INSTITUTE OF GRAPHOLOGYCAL SCIENCES (ACTIVITIES) GRATEFULNESS TO THE ASSOCIATIONS OF THE ARMED FORCES......................................................................................5 EPSI-UAB MASTERS IN CRIMINALISTICS 2011 DECLARED “A TRIBUTE TO THE INTERNATIONAL POLICE ASSOCIATION AND THE NATIONAL POLICE CORP’S SCIENTIFIC DEPARTMENT”......................................................................................................................................23 A TRIBUTE TO MARIA ANTONIA VIÑALS CARRERA...............................................................................................27 Magazine ICG Nº 11 2011 www.grafoanalisis.com

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CURRENT UNIVERSITY EDUCATION SYSTEM IN SPAIN AND EUROPE

1st Cycle (1 Ciclo) (I livello)

DEGREE (Grado) 240 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) credits* over four years of university study). The equivalent in Italy is the Laurea trienale and in English-speaking countries, the Bachelor’s Degree. The equivalent practical professional qualification would be the former University, Technical Engineering or Technical Architecture Diploma, depending on the speciality.

2nd Cycle (2 Ciclo) (II livello)

MASTERS (Master) 60 to 120 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System)* over one to two years). The equivalent in Italy is the Laurea magistrale/specialistica(although Italy is still not set up for the ECTS credits), and in English-speaking countries, Masters. The equivalent practical professional qualification would be the former University, Engineering or Architecture Degree, depending on the speciality.

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(*) The ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) credits are the standard adopted by all universities in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and guarantee the rapprochement of the various European higher education systems.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Former recipients of Masters and Postgraduate Degrees do not lose their standing or rights, but current Masters or Postgraduate Degrees that are not achieved with ECTS will be considered as specialisation courses that can be assessed in their own country, but will not be recognized in other European Union countries.

3rd Cycle (3 Ciclo) (III livello)

DOCTORATE (Doctorado) 60 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) and preparation and public defence of the Doctoral Thesis over 3 to 5 years). The equivalent in Italy is the Dottorato di ricerca, and in English-speaking countries, PhD. Doctorates are required for certain research and educational posts.

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Masters in European Graphoanalysis UAB - European Masters in Criminalistics (Forensic Sciences) UAB

Instituto de Ciencias del Grafismo

Institute of Graphological Sciences

JANUARY 2011: START OF THE NEW AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA (UAB) COURSE PROGRAMME FOR THE MASTERS IN EUROPEAN GRAPHOANALYSIS AND THE MASTERS IN CRIMINALISTICS Directors Professor Francisco Viñals y Professor Mariluz Puente inaugurated the majority of the courses in this new academic year, while Professor Josep Llobet inaugurated the course on Psychological Analysis of Handwriting Family Orientation and Professional. Both Masters, which give European credits, involve a large Professorial staff, with exceptional involvement from specialists from the National Police Corps, as this year the Masters in Criminalistics (Forensic Sciences) joins the ceremonies and celebrations for the Spanish Scientific Police Department’s Centenary.

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Students in the fourth year of the Degree in Prevention and Integral Security also receive technical training in graphology and document analysis; some of them have even chosen to undertake graphological research or suspicious document analysis for their final year projects, under the tutorship of Professors Francisco Viñals Carrera and Mariluz Puente Balsells, who are for the heads of said subject.

DOCUMENT SECURITY TECHNOLOGY

- - - Degree in Prevention and Integral Security

EPSI-UAB

- - - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

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Francisco Tortosa, contributing lecturer in the UAB Masters in Graphoanalysis and in Criminology, and President of the ANTUD (National Association of University Document Examiners), in collaboration with the Local Police in Alicante, organized a Seminar at the end of March on Applied Graphistics in determining the authorship of graffiti. The UAB students who attended bore witness to the excellent educational ability and high professional level of our colleague Francisco Tortosa and his team, something that has already been recognised in the press since 2009, when the anti-graffiti vandalism unit was founded.

In January, Francisco Tortosa had also already participated in the Conference organized by the S.E.I.P.C (Spanish Society of Criminal Profiling Investigation) with the University of Alicante, on Creating and Investigating Criminal Profiles and Serial Killings, with the lecture: Graphopsychological profile of a serial killer’s signature, also bringing together his colleague and Lecturer of the UAB Masters in European Graphoanalysis: Leticia Perinat.

CONTRIBUTORS

ALICANTE

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In March 2011, Professor Irune Ibarra of the UPV (Polytechnic University of Valencia) gave a lecture entitled “Handwriting in school, an interdisciplinary approach in the 21st century” to great acclaim before the Bilbao Official Association of Psychologists. The event was organized by Leticia Perinat and Rosa Ortiz Ciges, Lecturers from the UAB Masters in European Graphoanalysis.

Our colleague and representative in Madrid, Lecturer Mº Ángeles Arteaga is tutoring a group from the UAB Masters in European Graphoanalysis.

BILBAO

MADRID

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Mr Jordi Morera Jansá, MBA, representative of the AGC (Association of Consultant Graphoanalysts of Spain) for the Augusto Vels Museum, represented the organisation in the functions held by the municipal authorities of the town of Puerto Lumbreras (Murcia) for the purposes of classifying the Museum Collection of the work of Professor Augusto Vels on behalf of the Museums Committee and the Board of Fine Arts. This is a major achievement for Graphoanalysts and for the Spanish AGC as a contributing organisation of the Museum.

Lecturer Manuel J. Moreno Ferrero, one of the cornerstones of our academic team, is currently located in Asturias. In addition to his role as tutor to a Masters group, he continually participates in and organises activities and conferences, not only in Asturias but throughout the whole of Spain.

José Domínguez León, Ph.D, in addition to his assistance and advice as a professor in our UAB programmes, carries out classroom-based training in Graphology at the UNED (National University of Distance Education) in Seville.

MURCIA

OVIEDO

SEVILLA

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Gratefulness to the –Sociedad Gallega de Grafología- ( Galician Association of Graphology) that has granted the Member's title of Honor to the Professor Francisco VIÑALS CARRERA

GRATEFULNESS

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The Directors of the Institute of Graphological Sciences (Francisco Viñals Carrera and Mariluz Puente Nalsells) design are grateful for the obsequiousness of this beautiful pictorial work, on the part of our friend César Reglero, recognized artist and distinguished companion.

GRATEFULNESS TO THE ARTIST CESAR REGLERO

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EPSI-UAB MASTERS IN CRIMINALISTICS

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AGRADECIMIENTO A PROFESORES Y COLABORADORES ICG-UAB

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GRATEFULNESS TO THE ASSOCIATIONS OF THE ARMED FORCES Gratefulness to the civic - military associations that form a part of the Presentation of Culture of Defense in Catalonia specially to the AFAS and to the veterans' institution of the Police for his invitations to the acts of 2011, both in diverse places of Catalonia and in the Barrack of the Bruch in Barcelona, culminating last June 4 in the meeting of associations in the former C.I.R. N º 9 of Sescebes's Sant Climent (nowadays Billeting of the Regiment of Infantry of Mountain " Arapiles N º 62 "), very known by the Prof. Francisco Viñals for having taken part previously in

activities of formation in the above mentioned center. We make the gratefulness extensive to all the companions of the Forces and Bodies of the Security of the State for his enormous sacrifices, they help to work for the establishment of the Peace.

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Sant Climent Sescebes (Girona) Regiment of Infantry of Mountain " Arapiles N º 62 " Meeting of the Presentation of Culture of Defense in Catalonia

The Spanish FAS in the International Defense inside the United Nations

Juan Carricondo (President of the veterans' association of traffic of the Police) and Florentino Recio (manager of IPA Barcelona) friends and companions of the Dtres. Francisco Viñals y Mariluz Bridge in the recent celebration in honor of the meritorious institution.

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Participation of the Spanish FAS in the Missions of Peace. Funereal acts in the Barrack of the Bruch in Barcelona for the companions' Losses suffered in Afghanistan Acts of celebration of the FAS in the Barrack of the Bruch

Palace of the General Captaincy (Headquarters of the Military Region Pirenaica)

The “Molt Honorable” (Very Honourable) Mr. Artur Mas, President of the Autonomous government of Catalonia with the Military Chiefs, in a bibliographical presentation of Military Engineers, of great cultural interest.

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MASTER EN CRIMINALÍSTICA, EPSI-UAB

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EPSI-UAB MASTERS IN CRIMINALISTICS 2011 DECLARED

“A TRIBUTE TO THE INTERNATIONAL POLICE ASSOCIATION

AND THE NATIONAL POLICE CORP’S SCIENTIFIC DEPARTMENT”

The UAB Masters in Criminalistics joined in with the 50th Anniversary IPA Spanish Section. We would also like to offer our thanks for the support and participation given to us by the chairpersons and representatives of the contributing organizations, for exam- ple: ADPCI (Association of Qualified and Professional Criminologist and Investiga-tors), ANCREF (National Asso-ciation of Criminologists and Forensic Science Experts), ANTUD, AGC, APPCC, The Pro- fessional Association of Asturias, The

National Association of Intellectual and Industrial Property Experts, and the Institute of Handwriting Psychology, all of which are also contributors to and members of the ICG (Institute of Graphological Sciences), which is a member of the institutional board of professors and directors of forensic science laboratories and the organisation of criminologists and legal experts from the schools of legal practice, doctorate and postgraduate in Catalonia. Likewise the Directors of the Masters in Criminology have also participated in the celebrations in Barcelona: Scientific Department’s Centenary celebrations, to which the directors of the Masters and the EPSI-UAB (School of Prevention and Integral Safety and Security-Autonomous University of Barcelona) were also invited. In addition to these celebrations, the National Police Corps has played a special role in the UAB study programme, the current course of which has been declared a tribute to the International Police Association and the National Police Corps’s Scientific Department.

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For this reason, the directors also participated in several joint activities with the university and also with the IPA (International Police Association) — another organisation contributing to these studies.

International Police Association

REPORTAJE GRÁFICO DEL CENTENARIO DE LA POLICÍA CIENTÍFICA ESPAÑOLA EN BARCELONA JUNIO 2011

SEMINARIOS Y CLASES ESPECIALES UAB SUMADAS AL HOMENAJE DEL CENTENARIO DE LA POLICÍA CIENTÍF.

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By Francisco Viñals Carrera

that period and circumstances, they would impose, without neglecting their sense of responsibility, the discipline and order that characterized them, which is why the children also shared the social and humanitarian vocation of their parents and grandparents. As a child, María was also like her mother’s helper and voluntarily looked after her younger siblings. Her protective instinct led her to the health sciences, and when she entered university she trained as a psychologist, earning her Bachelor’s Degree from the Psychology Department of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Barcelona in 1978; at the same time as enrolling as a clinical and organisational psychologist she specialized in Psychometry and Projective Techniques, earning her Diploma from the Paediatric Neurology and Psychology Centre in 1985 under Dr P. Castells Cuixart. As a student, she volunteered in various hospitals and mental health centres under the leadership of Dr A. Pursell and Dr Torres, and as a clinical psychologist with D. Rayo, she also continuously gave her assistance, acting as psychologist to the entities collaborating with the Association of Consultant Graphoanalysts in Spain, and always in a humble and silent fashion.

A tribute to María Antonia Viñals Carrera

On 1 March 2011, after a three-month stay in hospital fighting cancer, we lost my sister (and sister-in-law to my wife Mariluz), María Antonia Viñals Carrera just shortly after celebrating her 58th birthday on 14 February. María Antonia, like Mariluz, was the eldest sister in the family. Their respective families were also neighbours (near the Plaza Calvo Sotelo, today Francesc Macià), and were families characterized by the happiness of the children, with exemplary parents who ensured that the children grew up as positively as possible, promoting the development of their skills and aspirations. Within the limits of

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Both she and her husband followed a healthy, macro- biotic lifestyle; even as a young couple, they drank fruit juices instead of soft drinks. They say this lifestyle can cure tumours and cancer, but it appears it was all for nothing: a completely healthy youth, free from contamination as they had a house in the countryside surrounding Sant Quirze; they were sporty, very aware of nature, they were volunteers in the civil defence organisation and

Carles also played an active role in extinguishing forest fires. Quite honestly, among the major losses we have suffered, one that was very similar to Maria Antonia’s case, succumbing to cancer, was that of Esperanza Fonta who also followed a scrupulously macrobiotic lifestyle — it brings to mind the expression: “it’s always the good ones who have to die”.

On 2 July 1992, José Luis Ortega Monasterio (a recipient of the Cruz de Sant Jordi award from the Generalitat and creator of habaneras such as: “El meu avi” inspired by his grandfather, captain of the ship “El Català”, whose trail he would follow in being a much loved and widely accepted army colonel at the service of society, who was a co-worker of our UAB colleague Professor Juli Busquets, and later the founder of humanitarian organisations) wrote to his esteemed colleague María Antonia: “To María Antonia, kind and respectful to the elderly, a model of the youth of today, Best regards” Ortega Monasterio

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We are grateful for all the condolences we have received, among these a very emotional letter from Professor Jaime Tutusaus, with whom Maria Antonia also occasionally worked as a psychologist in some of his HR affairs and who also indicated it was a hard blow for him. Many thanks, Jaime, and to all our good friends and colleagues.

From the City Council of Sant Quirze del Vallès, Elisabeth Oliveras i Jorba included a few words to its resident María Antonia Viñals Carrera in the municipal magazine INFOSQV No. 159 of March 2011: María Antonia was and will be for all of us a woman who, with the example and life experiences she leaves us, must be remembered and not forgotten. A valiant, just and supportive woman, full of pleasant conversation, intelligent, with a gentle smile and open face, she enjoyed participating in activities pertaining to the world of women and education. Her fight in the limited time life granted her, the effort she put in to accompany Mariona, her daughter, to protect her, to help her to grow, to not leave her alone, made her a WOMAN in capital letters. Living as she lived and doing so with dignity, tenderness and determination as she did, is no easy thing.This space is dedicated to her memory and to that of all the women we have lost too soon, and who we most certainly do not want to forget: Joana, Marta, Teresa, Alba, Milagros, Raquel, Nani... .. Thank you for what you have taught us.

Elisabeth Oliveras Jorba La Maria Antònia ha estat i serà per a totes nosaltres una dona que amb l’exemple i el testimoni de vida que ens deixa cal tenir present i no oblidar. Dona valenta, justa, solidària, de conversa agradable, intel·ligent, de somriure dolç i mirada transparent, gaudia participant en les activitats del món de la dona i de l’educació. La seva lluita amb el temps escadusser que la vida li va atorgar, l’esforç que ha fet per acompanyar a la Mariona, la seva filla, per protegir-la, per ajudar-la a crèixer, per no deixar-la sola la converteixen en una DONA en majúscules. Viure el que ella ha viscut i fer-ho amb la dignitat, tendresa i enteresa com ho ha fet ella no és gens fàcil. Aquest espai és per la seva memòria i la de totes les Dones que ens han anat deixant, massa aviat, i tossudament no les volem oblidar per la Joana, la Marta, la Teresa, l’Alba, la Milagros, la Raquel, la Nani.... . Gràcies pel que ens heu ensenyat. Elisabeth Oliveras i Jorba

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Thank you all for your support and sympathy on the loss of María Antonia

Both Mariluz and I, our 14-year old niece Mariona and all the family wish to thank you for your condolences on the death of María Antonia Viñals Carrera.

If it is possible, within this misfortune, that we pick up the optimism that my sister had right up to the end of those three months in hospital, we would maintain not only an extraordinary mental clarity, but an extraordinary faith and physical and spiritual fortitude.

These events change your life, but in María Antonia’s own vision we end up believing how adaptation is necessary and certain, which brings other perspectives on life that overcome the neurotic state of not understanding the reason and strives for the sacrifices for hope that go hand-in-hand with this internal fight; finally, new spiritual rewards are also discerned in the personal growth that we must make — after all, as graphoanalysts, we work precisely on something as exciting as the human being, in the dimension of one’s personality.

We leave the sadness behind in order to assume, with renewed happiness, a new path in memory of María Antonia and her husband Carles, who also died of cancer a couple of years ago.

Francisco Viñals Carrera