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's cranium, they thought revealed his or her personuliry, so did the shape ofthe mouth or the tilt of the nose. Today's thinking has that what goes on in the brain does not depend on the face and yet, just as astnology continues to flourish in a scientific world, so too does"phys/phren", as the combination has come to be called, remain with us in the 1980's.