Pierre Cabanis

One of the foundational texts in physiological psychology, the Rapports first appeared in articles from 1798 to 1801 then as a separate two volume book in 1802. Cabanis' most important work, in which he attempts to explain mental phenomena wholly in terms of physiological states, help lay the materialist foundation for later experimental psychology. Though neither a materialist nor an atheist, Cabanis who had been trained as a physician and wrote several medical works, helped spread the show more radical naturalism inaugurated by La Mettrie in the 1740s. It was here that Cabanis famously wrote that "the brain digests impressions and organically excretes thought?" show less