New Psycho-Cybernetics: The Original Science of Self-Improvement and Success That Has Changed the Lives of 30 Million People

by Maxwell Maltz

Overview

With over 30 million copies sold since its original publication in 1960, Psycho-Cybernetics has been used by athletes, entrepreneurs, college students, and many others, to achieve life-changing goals—from losing weight to dramatically increasing their income—finding that success is not only possible but remarkably simple.

Now updated to include present-day anecdotes and current personalities, The New Psycho-Cybernetics remains true to Dr. Maltz’s promise:“If you can remember, worry, or tie your shoe, you can succeed with Psycho-Cybernetics!”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780735202856
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	12/03/2002
Series:	The Psycho-Cybernetics Series
Edition description:	Updated
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Dr. Maxwell Maltz (1889-1975) received his doctorate in medicine from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in 1923. After postgraduate work in plastic surgery in Europe, Maltz was appointed to head several departments of reparative surgery in New York hospitals over his long and distinguished career. He was a prominent international lecturer on the psychological aspects of plastic surgery. He published two books on the subject, New Faces, New Futures and Dr. Pygmalion. In the 1950s, Maltz became increasingly fascinated by the number of patients who came to him requesting surgery who had greatly exaggerated "mental pictures" of their physical deformities, and whose unhappiness and insecurities remained unchanged even after he gave them the new faces they desired. In 1960, after nearly a decade of counseling hundreds of such patients, extensive research, and testing his evolving theory of "success conditioning" on athletes, salespeople, and others, he published his findings — then radical ideas — in the first edition of Psycho-Cybernetics, which went on to sell millions of copies and to be translated in dozens of languages.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	xi
Chapter 1	The Self-Image: Your Key to Living Without Limits	1
Chapter 2	How to Awaken the Automatic Success Mechanism Within You	25
Chapter 3	Imagination--The Ignition Key to Your Automatic Success Mechanism	43
Chapter 4	How to De-Hypnotize Yourself from False Beliefs	69
Chapter 5	How to Succeed with the Power of Rational Thinking	82
Chapter 6	How to Relax and Let Your Automatic Success Mechanism Work for You	101
Chapter 7	You Can Acquire the Habit of Happiness	117
Chapter 8	Ingredients of the "Success-type" Personality and How to Acquire Them	134
Chapter 9	How to Avoid Accidentally Activating Your Automatic Failure Mechanism	155
Chapter 10	How to Remove Emotional Scars and Give Yourself an Emotional Face Lift	180
Chapter 11	How to Unlock Your Real Personality	203
Chapter 12	Do-It-Yourself Tranquilizers that Bring Peace of Mind	224
Chapter 13	How to Turn a Crisis into a Creative Opportunity	243
Chapter 14	How to Get and Keep "That Winning Feeling"	261
Chapter 15	More Years of Life and More Life in Your Years	280
Chapter 16	True Stories of Lives Changed Using Psycho-Cybernetics
	The Case of the Least-Likely-to-Succeed Stockbroker	297
	The Case of the Professor's "F"	299
	The Case of the Alcoholic's Daughter	300
	The Case of the Rodeo Cowboys	301
	The Case of the Woman Who Could Not Walk	303
	Vocabulary	307
	Recommended Reading	309
	Additional Resources	311
	About the Authors	313
	The Artist's Gift	315
	Index	317