Psychocybernetics is a term coined by the famous American scientist and plastic surgeon Maxwell Maltz. He used it to describe an approach to reprogramming one’s life through working with the “self-image”—a person’s idea of themselves: their abilities, character, health, and appearance. Maltz repeatedly encountered patients who, even after a successful operation, continued to believe they were ugly. This feeling ran deep inside and prevented them from living a full life. Maltz noticed that a negative view of oneself is not only characteristic of patients at plastic surgery clinics. Millions of people drag out a miserable existence, unconsciously fleeing love, enduring failure after failure simply because it is implied by their self-image.
The book is narrated using artificial intelligence.