Self Image

Few years ago I read the book 'Psychocybernetics' by Dr.Maxwell Maltz. I found it very interesting and got some insight into the human mind.
Dr. Maltz was a plastic surgeon.Lot of people would come to him for say a 'Nose job' or a 'Boob job'.What Dr. Maltz noticed in a lot of cases (probably in most cases) that people coming in for those improvements in their physical appearances either had nothing wrong in their appearance to start with or say even after improvement with the help of the surgery, (backed by before and after photo ) the patients themselves did not or could not 'see' any improvement in their appearance.
That got Dr. Maltz to think.He theorised that if inspite of physical improvement, patients could not see it for themselves, then the fault could not have been 'physical'; It had to be mental.That is it was the patient's belief that there was something wrong with their nose/chin/eye/breast whatever.
Based on his research, he wrote the book and mentioned that its the persons 'self image ' that governs a lot of things in that persons life.( what they can or cannot do/be/have etc.)
He also mentions how one can change one's self image and in the process can do/be/have what was 'impossible' before.
This change has a lot to do with 'suggestions' which is similar to hypnotic suggestions.
I can see it all the time with different people.I believe this self image plays a big role in everybody's life and a person can transform their life by improving /changing their self image.