Alma H. Bond, Ph.D
Jackie O: On the Couch is the first of Alma Bond’s “On the Couch” series, and is Dr. Bond’s 19th published book. She received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Columbia University, graduated from the post-doctoral program in psychoanalysis at the Freudian Society, and was a psychoanalyst in private practice for 37 years in New York City. She “retired” to become a full-time writer, but maintained a small practice in addition to writing.
Her last book, Margaret Mahler, a Biography of the Psychoanalyst, received two awards: Best Books Award Finalist, USA Book News, and Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year Finalist. Her Maria Callas book, The Autobiography of Maria Callas: A Novel, was first runner-up in the Hemingway Days novel contest.
Her 17 other published books include: Camille Claude: A Novel; Old Age is a Terminal Illness; Who Killed Virginia Woolf?; A Psychobiography; Tales of Psychology: Short Stories to Make YouWise; I Married Dr. Jekyll and Woke Up Mrs. Hyde; Is There Life After Analysis?; On Becoming a Grandparent; America’s First Woman Warrior: The Story of Deborah Sampson (with Lucy Freeman); and a children’s book, The Tree That Could Fly.
Dr. Bond also wrote the play, “Maria,” about the life and loves of Maria Callas, which was produced off-off Broadway and was touring Florida.
Dr. Bond was a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Dramatists Guild, and the Authors Guild, as well as a fellow and faculty member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, the International Psychoanalytic Association, and the American Psychological Association.
Dr. Bond was the widow of Rudy Bond, the acclaimed stage, screen, and television actor, and author of I Rode a Streetcar Named Desire. She was the mother of three children, Zane P. Bond, Jonathan H. Bond, and Janet Bond Brill, all of whom are published authors, and she was the proud grandmother of eight, none of whom have published books . . . yet. But, as a wise friend of Alma’s put it, “In her family, it’s pretty much publish or perish.”