Phrenology tattoo

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Phrenology: the human and animal brain, the location of its functions according to the principles of phrenology, and personalia of phrenologists. Photographs, drawings and newsletters.

Phrenology head tattoo, Liv Morgan at St Clairs, Edinburgh. 1st March 2017. #phrenology #phrenologyhead #tattoo #neotraditionaltattoo

Consciousness. That unanswerable conundrum that taps incessantly on the inside of our skulls. Scientists, spiritual leaders and philosophers have been grappling over this metaphysical mystery since…

"Phrenology" from All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, a pseudomedicine, Phrenology focuses on personality and character, is distinct from craniometry, which is the study of skull size, weight and shape, and physiognomy, the study of facial features.

This phrenology chart showing the areas of the brain is a plate from an anatomy book. I believe it to be from the early years of the 20th century. I had a request from a television producer for some of our phrenology images so I thought I should post them here as well.

I scanned this fabulous Phrenology Head from a newspaper years and years ago when I got my first scanner which is probably considered to be an antique by now. You can see the text bleeding through from the reverse side of the newsprint. It's the best one I've ever seen and I always look for them. I sold this porcelain head recently.

The term applied to the psychological theories of Gall and Spurzheim, founded upon 1, the discovery that the brain, as the organ of the mind, is not so much a single organ as a complex congeries of organs; and 2, observations as to the existence of a certain correspondence between the aptitudes of the individual and the configuration of his skull.