Lady Macbeth On the Couch: Inside the Mind and Life of Lady Macbeth
by Alma H. Bond / Available on Amazon
Scholars, professors, and historians have wondered for centuries how and why Lady Macbeth, the beautiful, beloved wife of a nobleman, had to encourage–nay, push–her husband, Prince Macbeth, to commit the ghastly crime of killing the king.
The great Sigmund Freud himself said that nobody knows why the Lady did so. Dr. Alma Bond spent many years searching for the reason.
Read Lady Macbeth: On the Couch to learn the answer to this ancient mystery, and to get a fascinating, first-hand look at life more than a millennium ago.
Review
Lady Macbeth: On the Couch truly gets inside her mind and reinvents the famous Shakespeare character. –Cassandra Langer, Ph.D., bestselling biographer and art historian
Find out the truth that changed history from the source herself in Lady Macbeth: On the Couch. –Dr. Janet Brill, bestselling author of Cholesterol/Down (Random House)
Fans of Shakespeare should be advised that Lady Macbeth: On the Couch is very much its own story. It is not Shakespeare’s Macbeth told from Lady Macbeth’s point of view. Instead, it is what literature lovers enjoy the most–an intelligent treatment of the possible life of one the most infamous, mysterious female characters in all of literature. I plan to purchase Lady Macbeth: On the Couch, as it will complement my 12th grade AP English Literature curriculum. This novel will actually serve as a great teaching companion to the play, as it is a wonderful example of the power of characterization in writing. If only I could afford an entire class set of this novel! —Renee Fletcher, English teacher, Fitzgerald High School, Warren, MI
Find out the truth that changed history from the source herself in Lady Macbeth: On the Couch. –Dr. Janet Brill, bestselling author of Cholesterol/Down (Random House)
Fans of Shakespeare should be advised that Lady Macbeth: On the Couch is very much its own story. It is not Shakespeare’s Macbeth told from Lady Macbeth’s point of view. Instead, it is what literature lovers enjoy the most–an intelligent treatment of the possible life of one the most infamous, mysterious female characters in all of literature. I plan to purchase Lady Macbeth: On the Couch, as it will complement my 12th grade AP English Literature curriculum. This novel will actually serve as a great teaching companion to the play, as it is a wonderful example of the power of characterization in writing. If only I could afford an entire class set of this novel! —Renee Fletcher, English teacher, Fitzgerald High School, Warren, MI
About the Author
Alma H. Bond, PhD, is a psychoanalyst and the author of 19 published books. 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 thirty-seven years in New York City. She ”retired” to become a full-time writer, but now maintains 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 sixteen 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 You Wise; 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.
See a complete list of Dr. Bond’s books.
Dr. Bond also wrote the play, Maria, about the life and loves of Maria Callas, which was produced off-off Broadway and is currently touring Florida.
Dr. Bond is 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 is the widow of Rudy Bond, the acclaimed stage, screen, and television actor, and author of I Rode a Streetcar Named Desire. She is the mother of three children, Zane P. Bond, Jonathan H. Bond, and Janet Bond Brill, all of whom are published authors, and she is the proud grandmother of eight, none of whom has published a book . . . yet. But, as a wise friend of Alma’s put it, ”In her family, it’s pretty much publish or perish.”
For more information, Alma Bond’s website: alma_bond.tripod.com/
