Dr. Maxwell Maltz (1899-1975) created his self-improvement phenomenon: 'Psycho-Cybernetics' at age 61, as the climax to an already varied, colorful and exceptionally successful career. Maxwell Maltz, M.D., F.I.C.S., was one of the most important and renowned authors in the field of psychology in the past fifty years. His books include Creative Living for Today, The Magical Power of Self-Image Psychology and the bestseller Psycho-Cybernetics, which has achieved sales of more that 30 million copies. A brilliant plastic surgeon, he was also an internationally-renowned professor and lecturer.

Maltz graduated with a doctorate in medicine from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1919. He studied plastic surgery in Europe, and practiced it in New York City. He was a member of many international surgical organizations; and lectured and taught in many countries. For many years, Dr. Maltz had a flourishing practice as a reconstructive and cosmetic facial surgeon, lectured internationally on his medical specialty, and pursued a dual career as a prolific author.

He was inspired to move from treating "outer scars" to "inner scars" after observing that so many patients' unhappiness and insecurities were not cured, as they and he had believed would occur when he gave them the perfect new faces they desired. Dr. Maltz first wrote of this discovery in his book "New Faces, New Futures." In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Maltz suggested that many people "see themselves" inaccurately, their perceptions distorted by unchallenged and often erroneous beliefs imbedded in the subconscious mind.

After a decade of counseling hundreds of patients, extensive research of everything from German missile guidance technology (then more advanced than our own) to hypnosis, and testing his evolving "success conditioning techniques" on athletes an salespeople, he published his findings, in 1960, in the original 'Psycho-Cybernetics' book. It was an instant bestseller and made Dr. Maltz one of the most in-demand motivational speakers throughout the 1960's and the early 1970's.

Dr. Maltz went on to amass a wealth of "case history" material, seminars, workshops, radio broadcasts, over a dozen books all applying 'Psycho-Cybernetics' to different purposes, from business success to sex life improvement. He also authored and had published "The Magic Powers of the Self-Image", "Five Minutes to Happiness", "Live and Be Free through Psycho-Cybernetics" and three novels, as well as his autobiography, Doctor Pygmalion: The Autobiography of a Plastic Surgeon (1953), which was re-titled Doctor Psycho-Cybernetics after his self-help work was published.

Dr. Maxwell Maltz’s principles of Psycho-Cybernetics have inspired and enhanced the lives of more than 30 million people around the world. Dr. Maltz invented a simple, step-by-step program that will help you replace a negative self-image with positive affirmations of empowerment.