Troubles with writing.

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The book I'm stuck writing is strange: a psychological drama, a hardboiled noir thriller, a science fiction punk yarn and a dark satire. The morality of the characters will definitely teeter between black and gray, but I don't want it to come off as totally nihilistic, with completely reprehensible characters. They need to be likeable in some way. I don't understand dark humor, the plot is not very tension-filled, and the science is not at once credible. The plot revolves around a radical form of therapy that is a cross between genetic engineering and psychoanalysis. I need to do more research and may have to come up with a more credible goal than "giving people a chance to escape from themselves." What would the psychological effects of being redesigned into a superior being entail? What are the philosophical, societal, or religious implications?

My biggest problem is that I can't concentrate, period.

I'd say ask anyone who's lost a lot of weight and/or had plastic surgery. When someone who's been considered (or considered themselves) fat and ugly suddenly becomes thin and beautiful, there's going to be some radically different behavior. Different people handle it differently, but most everyone will do something different than what they've done before.

This has nothing to do with body image.

That kind of depends on what exactly the changes do to the subject, both physically and psychologically. Are they feared, respected, persecuted, exalted, what? How do they view themselves; the same way as everyone else, or some other way? Are there any political, legal, social, economic, or religious restrictions or enablements placed on them?

Just some stuff to think about.