Dr. Anthony J. Emmett was a reconstructive plastic surgeon who worked for many years repairing children with congenital deformities in Queensland, New Zealand, England and Brisbane. He also reconstructed adults and became interested in the way the subconscious level of thinking guides our choices in life. He saw the self-image held in the unconscious levels of mind influencing his patients. He produced lectures, surgical journal articles and books on the surgery of repair, aspects of reconstruction after removal of skin cancers. He had written on skin cancers with medical books and general-public books, and was on the Editorial Board of The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery. He had been made Clinical Professor of Surgery in Brisbane in the years there teaching medical students.