Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21268 in Books
• Published on: 2003-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Customer Reviews

Astonishingly practical and enlightening
This book is profoundly good. Do not let the artificial sounding title put you off - it contains chapter after chapter of elegantly written guidance for living. It is evident in the writing that this is the result of not years but decades of observation by Maltz. The chapter on negative emotional habits is in itself worth the money. I bought the book to try to resolve 11 years of tension headaches. After reading teh first chapter, I stopped reading in order to try out some ideas. The headaches are improving, but almost as importantly, I have learnt so much more about myself. Not speculative, extrapolated ideas of the author, but the result of close observations of patients who were councelled before cosmetic surgery. In many cases, the intended facial surgery was canceled, to be replaced by surgery of attitude.
I cannot recommend it highly enough.

Full of Techniques to
Psycho-cybernetics is THE definitive self-help book. I read Maxwell Maltz's original book and benefited immensely. I was a little wary about reading an update. But I'm glad I did. The information is clearly presented, easy to read and there are practical suggestions for putting the advice into practice. If you have to overcome any bad habit, from shyness, lack of confidence, procrastination, chronic lateness, nail-biting, or anything else, you can do it with psycho-cybernetics. Although this version of the book was written 15 years after Maxwell Maltz's death, it is all in the first-person, as though Maltz himself had written it. Gives a new meaning to the term "ghost written"! But if you can live with that, it's a very enlightening book.

A very grown-up read
I approached the book with caution -- the somewhat psychobabble title was potentially off-putting -- but I must confess that I have been extremely impressed.

Maltz's style is thorough, approachable, and not at all patronising. His arguments are convincing, and I found myself nodding in self-recognition during many passages. His prescriptions are thought-provoking and eminently achievable, a million miles from some of the happy-clappy practices of NLP that may have you smiling for a few hours, but which ultimately can feel shallow and unconvincing.

In fact, the core of Maltz's thought is a thorough-going reality check, a calm, measured and thoroughly reasonable dissection of one's internal and external world view, with the aim of proving that the only person preventing growth and achievement is our own self, and what to do about it.

Highly recommended.