Franz Joseph Gall - Naturalist of the Mind, Visionary of the Brain (Relié)

Franz Joseph Gall, a dedicated physician and scientist, is unfortunately most remembered for his controversial doctrine that would later become known as phrenology. Although often portrayed as a discredited buffoon, who believed he could assess a person's strengths and weaknesses by studying cranial bumps, Gall strove to answer pressing questions about the mind, brain, and behavidr His career began in Vienna during the 1790s and ended with his death in Paris in 1828.
This work presents a fresh look at Gall, both his life and seminal ideas, some of which - for example, cortical localization of function, attending to individual differences, and an absence of metaphysics - would become tenets of the modern neurosciences.