Books about patients in psychoanalysis have become almost as popular as detective stories and just about as numerous. However, accounts of group therapy from the patient's own viewpoint have not appeared, and Each Man Kills is such a narrative.

Matt Grey feels an imminent impulse to kill, becomes sexually impotent with rage, and desperately seeks out a psychoanalyst. He joins a group of equally desperate people in group analysis, and tells the story of tormented souls seeking their salvation in a purgatory of mutual recrimination and forgiveness.

From a psychoanalytic viewpoint there are several aspects of professional interest in this novel. Matt's story of his rending agony in ordinary living fills out and amplifies the more pallid history that often emerges in practice. Many of Matt's symptoms are vivid illustrations of borderline functioning. His unwillingness to differentiate fantasy