This slim volume is one of a new series published by the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, bringing together the best of public lectures delivered by analysts at the British Psycho-Analytical Society.

In his introduction, Paul Williams clearly describes the importance of structural brain abnormality, in people suffering from schizophrenia. Such acknowledgement is helpful, as it addresses the unhelpful split between the ‘psychology’ and ‘physiology’ of psychosis. He also quotes Lewontin—genes