Alma H. Bond, PhD


Biography

Dr. Alma H. Bond is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, Florida Freelance Writers Association, the Dramatists Guild, and the Writers Guild. She is also belongs to the International Psychoanalytic Association, American Psychological Association, is a fellow and faculty member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, etc. etc. She retired from a highly successful Manhattan practice as a psychoanalyst in 1991 to write full time in Key West, Florida.


And to teach. She is teaching a course entitled "Psychology in Writing." Here is the course description:

"Stories are about people -- what makes us tick, how and why we change. This course is study of the way psychology plays a role in all our characters. You will read stories with a psychological understructure (including dreams) for discussion and analysis. Then you'll try your hand at writing your own stories using the psychological principals you have learned.

At the end of this course, you will have a better understanding of character motivation and behavior. As a result, you will be able to construct better characters and more easily adapt real people to function in your fiction."

For more information on this course, check out the website for this
WRITING SCHOOL


Since retiring from her practice, Dr. Bond has had seven books published. Each of them can be purchased from amazon.com ... the name is a link. Or, if you would like to purchase an autographed copy, you can e-mail Dr. Bond at AlmaBond@compuserve.com.:

The Autobiography of Maria Callas, a Novel , (Birch Brook Press, 1998, has just had its second printing). - "Alma Bond creates a tapestry of the life of the prima donna assoluta who..in the still small hours of the morning becomes a vulnerable, fragile creature who weeps tragic tears into her pillow.." - Joy Davidson, renowned mezzo-soprano (La Scala, Metropolitan, New York City Opera, etc. etc.). Hardback edition is $27.95. Also available in paperback.

Who Killed Virginia Woolf? A psychobiography (Human Sciences Press, 1989 and A Behavioral Science Book-of-the-Month Club alternate, now in its third printing) "a brilliant, original book that not only gives the reader new understanding of why Virginia Woolf committed suicide but also brings him new depths in the understanding of his own life." Lucy Freeman, best selling author. $21.50.

On Becoming a Grandparent (BridgeWorks Publishing, 1994) "a no-holds-barred account of the emotional pitfalls - and satisfactions - that accompany an expanding family. With warmth and candor, skill and insight, Alma Bond weaves her own personal experiences and her trained psychoanalyst's observations into a tale that is bound to be valuable to all those interested in learning more about the dynamics of family relationships." - W.P. Kinsella, author of Shoeless Joe, (made into the motion picture, Field of Dreams), and other novels. $19.95.

Is There Life After Analysis? (Baker Book House, 1993) "Like the good mother who prepares her children to walk away from her, analyst Alma Bond sustains the journey to confident selfhood with love...welcomes the reader to the richly furnished ‘home' of her experience." - Julie J. McDonald, prize-winning author. Temporarily out of print, but amazon.com will try and find it for you.

Dream Portrait: A Study of Nineteen Sequential Dreams As Indicators of Pretermination (International Universities Press, 1992) "This book is required reading for any serious student of psychoanalysis and will be stimulating and enriching for anyone interested in the psychotherapeutic process." -Herbert Strean, D.S.W. Psychoanalyst. $30.00.

America's First Woman Warrior: The Courage of Deborah Sampson. (With Lucy Freeman) (Paragon Press, 1992), now under option in Hollywood. "Her story provides valuable insight into Revolutionary War history." - Publishers Weekly. Temporarily out of print, but amazon.com will try and find it for you.

Profiles of Key West (Poho Press, 1997). "Her piercing style cuts to the heart of her subjects. Bond reveals the layers of their personalities with subtlety and a deft sure skill." - Key West Citizen. $14.95.

Her play Maria (also about Maria Callas) was recently given a staged reading by Waterloo Bridge Theatre in Manhattan, to much acclaim. It was also a winner of the Southern Appalachian Theatre Festival last year, and was given a reading there, as well as at the Waterfront Theatre in Key West, Florida.

Dr. Bond has had many professional articles published in prestigious psychoanalytic journals, and has written numerous interviews for magazines and newspapers. Two of her favorites are My Memories of Marlon Brando, published in Remember, and The Romance of the Golden Greeks: Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis, in Greece Travel Magazine. Both articles received awards for fine journalism from the state of Florida. She was on the faculty of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research for many years, and is now a faculty member of ASJA member Tim Perrin's online Writers School.

She was runner-up in the First Novel Contest of Hemingway Days, and received many FFWA State of Florida awards for published articles, interviews, and novel chapters. Her short story, The Latch That Wouldn't Lock, was included in Ten Top Short Stories of 1993. She is listed in Who's Who in America 2000, International Authors and Writers Who's Who, and twenty other biographies.

And recently she personally interviewed Dr. Ian Wilmut, the creator of Dolly the Sheep, on the subject of cloning. You can read this remarkable interview on the web by clicking here: Dr Ian Wilmut

Dr. Bond is the widow of the late stage, screen, and TV actor, Rudy Bond, whose book "I Rode A Streetcar Named Desire", was just published posthumously by Birch Brook Press. She is the mother of Zane Bond, Jonathan Bond (CEO of the hip advertising agency, Kirshenbaum and Bond), and Janet Bond Brill. Jonathan's book, Under the Radar, was published last year by John Wiley and Sons. She is the proud grandmother of five children.