The Self Image: Your Key to a Better Life

DURING the past decade" a revolution has been quietly
going on in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and
medicine.
New theories and concepts concerning the "self" have
grown out of the work and findings of clinical psychologists,
practicing psychiatrists and cosmetic or so-called
"plastic surgeons." New methods growing out of these
findings have resulted in rather dramatic changes in personality,
health, and apparently even in basic abilities and
talents. Chronic failures have become successful. "F"
students have changed into "straight A" pupils within a
matter of days and with no extra tutoring. Shy, retiring,
inhibited personalities have become happy and outgoing.
Writing in the January, 1959 issue of Cosmopolitan
magazine, T. F. James summarizes the results obtained
by various psychologists and M.D.'s as follows:
"Understanding the psychology of the self can mean the
difference between success and failure, love and hate, bitterness
and happiness. The discovery of the real self can
rescue a crumbling marriage, recreate a faltering career,
transform victims of 'personality failure.' On another
plane, discovering your real self means the difference between
freedom and the compulsions of conformity."