After seeing "The Hours" I knew I had to read more on Ms Woolf. What a great woman she was. What a great tragedy when the world lost her.

This book is definitely a must for anyone wanting to know Virginia Woolf.

When I taught a graduate seminar on Virginia Woolf at Iowa State University, I told my students to read this book if they wanted, as students always do, to understand the multitude of reasons for Woolf's suicide.

Most biographies skirt the responsibilities of the other people in Woolf's life -- the exact topic that Alma Bond takes on so thoroughly. This book had to be written exactly because other writers have not been willing to examine all dimensions of Woolf's death. Hurray for Alma Bond for applying her psychoanalist's expertise on this literary/historical subject!

When Alma Bond, a practicing psychoanalyst of 38 years, discovered she was to be a grandparent, she kept a diary to record the child's intrauterine development as well as any psychological changes within her family. What she discovered was far more than she had expected.

Suddenly, or so it seems, our children are all grown-up & having children of their own. Whatever happened to all those fond, dim memories of their childhoods? Where were we, as parents? What are our children's memories of what we were doing in our own prime of life?

This is a sincere record of the author's insights, her musings on what she learnt from the travails of her patients' lives, her examination of her feelings toward her own mother, as well as her very real wisdom about how our minds work through our struggles

A fascinating journal of exploration & the perfect gift for anyone about to graduate into grandparenthood!

Alma Bond has taken the opportunity to combine some excellent short stories with her expertise in comprehending human behavior to both entertain and delight the reader. Each of her reprinted stories has a lesson, or special matter of understanding within its pages that she feels worthy of sharing with us. With her guidance at the end of each one we may gain some better understanding of ourselves or someone around us. A perfect example of this is in Conrad Aiken's Silent Snow, Secret Snow which deals with a twelve year old boy and the beginning of mental illness that goes undiagnosed even though his parents know something isn't right. There is a great lesson in this story. Bond is to be commended for this work. Excellent reading.

Painstakingly compiled by psychoanalyst Alma H. Bond (who was in private practice for 37 years), Tales Of Psychology: Short Stories To Make You Wise is an impressive anthology of short stories which were specifically crafted by their authors to provide meaningful insights into the nature and workings of the human mind. Ranging from Raymond Carver's "A Small, Good Thing", to Woody Allen's "My Apology", nineteen intellectually and literarily gifted authors proffer their short story revelations into the human psyche in a compelling, highly readable, enthusiastically recommended collection.

"Tales of Psychology: Short Stories to Make You Wise" is an exceptional book. A happy marriage of psychology and literture. "Tales of Psychology" bring life to literature and literature to life. She has chosen powerful stories that speak to all of us about all of us; she draws upon her considerable professional, literary, and scholarly life's achievement to enrich us with deeper knowledge of our psychology and greater respect for our literature. - Dr. Mary-Alice Herbert, Professor of English, editor, publisher, poet and playwright.