Psychology for the People Press

A house for depth psychology, queer life, and the anti-racist imagination.

We publish books, plays, and journalism that bring the inner life back into the culture. Theories and practices to usher in a more free world, one psyche at a time.

Call for submissions

The inaugural anthology is open.

We are gathering new writing for the first volume of the Psychology for the People Anthology: essays, fiction, and hybrid work in depth psychology, queer life, and the anti-racist imagination. Work that confronts the oppression within the mind and reaches for wholeness.

October 15, 2026
Submission deadline
Read the guidelines and submit
The list

What we are publishing.

A working catalog. Some titles are out in the world, some are arriving, some are still taking shape.

Psychology for the People Anthology

Inaugural volume · Edited by Douglas Sadownick

New writing in depth psychology, queer life, and the anti-racist imagination, gathered from our classes and from voices we go looking for.

Forthcoming

Healing Gay Sex and Love

Douglas Sadownick · Edited by the late Felice Picano

A gay men's therapy group, a dialogue with Plato, and a closing workshop that turns readers into participants.

Available

The Gay Hero's Journey

Douglas Sadownick · Serialized on Laterpress

A novel and a map in one: the story that gave rise to the G+Q MAP and the GQ SHIFT, released chapter by chapter.

In serial

Broken Open

Douglas Sadownick · Memoir

Broken bones, broken families, broken hearts, and the road to repair. What it costs to give yourself to a community, what it takes to leave, and the long way back to yourself.

Forthcoming

Enough

A play by Douglas Sadownick

A Jewish family sits down to dinner. Their guest is Palestinian. A play about what one table can and cannot hold.

Forthcoming

Queer Rites at the L.A. Weekly

Robin Podolsky and Douglas Sadownick

Selected Gay and AIDS beat journalism, winner of the 1992 GLAAD Award for Excellence in Reporting.

Forthcoming1992 GLAAD Award

Live for Today or Tomorrow: Growing Up Black in America

Payton Young

A memoir of coming of age Black in America.

Forthcoming

A Divinely Gay Comedy

A Camp Journey Through Shame, Desire, and Transformation

A men's therapy group restages Dante's Divine Comedy as their own descent and return, falling apart and into love along the way.

In development

The Gay Nietzsche

A Survey of His Life and Works · Douglas Sadownick

A revisiting of the philosopher through a depth-psychological lens, drawn from the author's doctoral work.

In development