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Psycho-Cybernetics and Self-Fulfillment (Paperback)
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Psycho-Cybernetics and Self-Fulfillment (Paperback)
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Loot Price R366
Discovery Miles 3 660
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Maxwell Maltz was an American cosmetic surgeon and author of
Psycho-Cybernetics, which was a system of ideas that he claimed
could improve one's self-image. In turn, the person would lead a
more successful and fulfilling life. He wrote several books, among
which Psycho-Cybernetics was a long-time bestseller - influencing
many subsequent self-help teachers. His orientation towards a
system of ideas that would provide self-help is considered the
forerunner of the now popular self-help books. The word cybernetic
comes from the Greek for 'steersman', and in the modern sense
usually refers to systems of control and communication in machines
and animals: how, for instance, a computer or a mouse organises
itself to achieve a task. Maltz applied the science to man to form
psycho-cybernetics. However, while inspired by the development of
sophisticated machines, his book denounced the idea that man can be
reduced to a machine. Psycho-cybernetics bridges the gap between
our mechanistic models of the brain's functioning (cliches like
'Your brain is a wonderful computer'), and the knowledge of
ourselves as being a lot more than machine. Maltz's genius was in
saying that while we were 'machines', and while the dynamics of
goal-setting and self-image might best be described in mechanistic
terms, the fantastic variety of our desires and our ability to
create new worlds were uniquely human. What could never be reduced
to machine analogies were the fires of imagination, ambition and
will. In this book "Psycho-Cybernetics and Self-Fulfillment," Dr.
Maxwell Maltz teach about: Goals, Self Image, Happiness, and
more...
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