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Although “The Power Tactics of Jesus Christ” is the only new and original contribution by Jay Haley in this slim volume-the other five essays having appeared in print before in diverse professional journals- it is gratifying to have these essays in one volume. Haley's far flung inquiries into various professional fields can be judged from the titles of the other essays: “The Art of Psychoanalysis,” “The Art of Being a Failure as a Therapist,” “The Amiable Hippie,” “Whither Family Therapy?” and “The Art of Being Schizophrenic.”
Haley is a clever and subtle satirist. He strips away professional verbiage that conceals and confuses, attacks therapists for their “trained incapacity to examine content” and assails the money-changers in the temple of psychotherapy. His aim is not to wreck and to destroy. On the contrary, his ridicule and sarcasm serve effectively to restore proper dimensions and relationships within the psychotherapeutic profession.
This reviewer finds himself in full agreement with Dr. Eric Berne who writes: “Haley is so far above the average of psychiatric book-writers that he deserves careful attention.”