Psychology, the science of the mind, only really began to coalesce into a respectable discipline towards the end of the Victorian era. It aimed to free our understanding of the mind from the shackles of superstition, and bring tidy scientific methodology to mystical speculation. Headhunters tells the story of four of the pioneers of British psychology, the Cambridge anthropologist and psychiatrist, William Rivers, two of his pupils, Charles Myers and William McDougall, and the Australian-born anatomist Grafton Elliot Smith.We begin with the celebrated 1898 Cambridge University expedition to the Torres Straits between New Guinea and Australia, which had Rivers, Myers and McDougall on board. They hoped that study of the primitive minds of the local natives might provide clues to the develop