In the nineteenth century many people accepted as scientifically valid not only face – reading, or physiognomy, but also head – reading, or phrenology. The bumps on a person’s cranium, they thought, revealed his or her personality; so did the shape of the mouth or the tilt of the nose. Today’s thinking has it that what goes on in the brain does not depend on the face, and yet, just as astrology continues to flourish in a scientific world, so too does “phys/phrenology,” as the combination has come to be called, remain with us in the 1980’s.