author of Psycho-Cybernetics (1960), which was a system of ideas that he claimed could improve one's self-image leading to a more successful and fulfilling life.

[6] Maxwell "Max" Maltz was born March 10, 1899, in Manhattan's Lower East Side, the third child of Josef Maltz and Taube Elzweig,[7] Jewish immigrants from what was then known as the town of Resche in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today Rzeszów, Poland).

[8] In 1923, Maltz graduated with a doctorate in medicine from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

He also undertook training under German plastic surgeons who were considered most advanced in cosmetic surgery at the time.

[9] Maltz also wrote fiction, including a play called Unseen Scar (1946)[10] and a novel, The Time is Now (1975).