Depth psychology, queer imagination, and the writing life, taught in living rooms, on Zoom, and on the page.
For four decades I have listened to stories of struggle, eros, and transformation, and I have written them down.
I founded the nation's first LGBT Specialization in Clinical Psychology at Antioch University and co-founded the Colors LGBTQ Youth Counseling Center. My work draws on Freud and Jung, gay liberation, feminism, recovery, and the long tradition of meaning-making that runs from the Bronx of my childhood to the consulting room.
This is the home for my books, my classes, and the publishing house I am building. If you came looking for therapy, you will find that work at drdouglassadownick.com.
Fiction and nonfiction about sex, love, shame, and the long road back to oneself.
Four men confront shame, intimacy, and eros inside a Hollywood therapy group, with a time-traveling detour through Plato. Edited by the late Felice Picano.
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My award-winning first novel, originally from St. Martin's Press, reissued for a new generation of readers.
Read more and orderThese paintings came out of dreams and active imagination. They are one way the inner work takes shape, and there are others: a sentence you finally write, a session, a class, an honest look at the country we are trying to repair. The more you face what is inside, the freer you become, as a maker, as a partner, and as a citizen with the clarity to choose better. Drawing a dream is one doorway. Below are more.
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Prints and originals are coming. To ask about a piece now, email me.
Small cohorts, taught live. Each class can stand alone, and each one feeds the same river: the work that wants to become a book.
A generative writing workshop for memoir, fiction, and the autobiographical essay. Read like a writer, write toward what frightens you, leave each week with new pages.
A guided passage through the framework of my book: the G+Q MAP, the GQ SHIFT, and the Three Houses, toward what I call erotic sovereignty. For seekers, not tourists.
Freud, Jung, the unconscious, shadow, and the alchemy of change, taught for the curious rather than the credentialed. Bring your questions and your dreams.
Every offering here is part of one path. You come to write, to study, to undo a little shame, and the strongest of that work has somewhere to go.
Develop pages, ideas, and nerve in a live cohort.
Bring it to consultation, revision groups, and the reader prompts built into each course.
The inaugural volume is open now. Deadline October 15, 2026.
