Unimaginable Storms is the progeny of two psychoanalysts from very different backgrounds. Dr Murray Jackson has had many years of experience in psychiatry and psychotherapy, and his book is about the inpatient ward he ran, for over a decade, at the Maudsley Hospital in collaboration with Professor Robert Cawley. The book's originality derives from the detailed transcripts of interviews between Dr Jackson and his patients, as recorded by Paul Williams, who has a background in anthropology, and who was an observer on the ward over a two-year period. The message of the book is that psychodynamic thinking should be at the heart of psychiatric management of the disturbed, psychotic individual and that consideration of the form of the disturbance is empty if the content of the illness is not given meaning. Of particular importance is the diagnostic assessment interview to which the patient transcripts relate. This, argue the authors, should be available to all acutely-ill psychotic patients,