Memoir of a Quiet Life

My near-death experience at age fifteen has always been my secret and my inner treasure. When I decided to write about it, the time had come to look at the aftereffects which have lasted these five decades. As I discovered, the story became the jouney toward maturity, the path of individuation. I am still trying to understand what it means to be mature. Confessions of an Introvert: The Solitary Path to Emotional Maturity is the story of my search, from religion to psychoanalysis, for the meaning of my near-death experience. Told as a personal narrative, it deals with Erikson's eight stages of the life-cycle, Jung's development of the personality, and the nature of consciousness. I hope you will read it. Click book cover for Amazon page.

Confessions of an Introvert - Audio of Chapter One

Chapter One Slideshow

Psychoanalyst D. Stephenson Bond reads from the first chapter of his new book Confessions of an Introvert. This new memoir deals with the process of maturity, told as an intimate narrative of the inner life stretching over fifty years. It is the story of a near-death experience and the lifelong search to understand the experience.

Confessions of an Introvert - How It Started

I thought it would be helpful to talk about how this new book Confessions of an Introvert came together. In this video I talk about the inspiration, the 1973 book The Denial of Death, some thoughts on individuation and the maturation process, and discovering your opus as a project of legacy.

Living Myth Twenty Five Years Later

I was honored to be invited to give a lecture on personal myth at the Jungian Association of Western Massachusetts in the fall of 2015. It gave me the chance to reflect on the changes in my understanding of myth since I wrote Living Myth: Personal Meaning as a Way of Life twenty-five years ago.

Author Interview: Healing Lily

This is a segment of my interview with Ed Medina from 2010 when my novel Healing Lily was published. We discuss psychoanalysis, the sand tray, and symbols from the novel.