Maxwell Maltz

Born and educated in Europe, Maltz spent most of his adult life in
New York where he established a reconstructive cosmetic surgery practice.
His New Faces, New Futures was a collection of case histories of
patients whose lives had been transformed by facial surgery. Maltz's
subsequent research into the few patients whose lives did not radically
improve led him to the psychologist Prescott Lecky's work on "selfconsistency."
He was in his 60s by the time Psycho-Cybernetics was
published.
With its success, Maltz became a popular motivational speaker
throughout the 1960s and the early 1970s. The wide audience for the
book included Salvador Dali, who painted a "psycho-cybernetics" work
as a gift to the author. Maltz died in 1971, aged 76.
Though rather overshadowed, other Maltz titles include The Magic
Powers of the Self-Image, Live and Be Free through Psycho-
Cybernetics, three novels and an autobiography, Dr. Pygmalion. Psycho-
Cybernetics 2000, edited by Bobbe Summer and Anna Maltz, is an
updated version of the book. The Psycho-Cybernetics Foundation
(www.psycho-cybernetics.com) now promotes his work.