Transform Press is a small

publishing company Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ...

in the area of

psychedelic Psychedelics are a subclass of hallucinogenic drugs whose primary effect is to trigger non-ordinary mental states (known as psychedelic experiences or "trips") and a perceived "expansion of consciousness". Also referred to as classic halluci ...

s and other

psychoactive drug A psychoactive drug, psychopharmaceutical, mind-altering drug, consciousness-altering drug, psychoactive substance, or psychotropic substance is a chemical substance that alters psychological functioning by modulating central nervous system acti ...

s that is based in

Berkeley, California Berkeley ( ) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland, Cali ...

.In Memoriam Ann Shulgin, Forerunner of Today’s Psychedelic Re-Emergence, Dies at 91. MAPS Bulletin: Special Edition, XXXII2. 2022. https://maps.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/AnnShulgin-MAPS-Bulletin-XXXII2-V1b-15.pdf It is the publisher of the books of

Alexander Shulgin Alexander Theodore "Sasha" Shulgin (June 17, 1925 – June 2, 2014) was an American biochemist, broad researcher of synthetic psychoactive compounds, and author of works regarding these, who independently explored the organic chemistry and ph ...

and

Ann Shulgin Laura Ann Shulgin ( Gotlieb; March 22, 1931 – July 9, 2022) was an American author and the wife of chemist Alexander Shulgin, with whom she wrote ''PiHKAL'' and '' TiHKAL''. Life and career Laura Ann Gotlieb Detailed biography of Ann Shulgin ...

and is led by Wendy Tucker, Ann Shulgin's daughter. The company's published books by the Shulgins include ''

PiHKAL ''PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story'' is a book by Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin published in 1991. The subject of the work is Psychoactive drug, psychoactive phenethylamine Derivative (chemistry), chemical derivatives, notably those that act ...

'' (''Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved'') (1991), ''

TiHKAL ''TiHKAL: The Continuation'' is a 1997 book written by Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin about a family of psychoactive drugs known as tryptamines. A sequel to '' PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story'', ''TiHKAL'' is an acronym that stands for "Trypt ...

'' (''Tryptamines I Have Known and Loved'') (1997), ''

The Shulgin Index ''The Shulgin Index, Volume One: Psychedelic Phenethylamines and Related Compounds'' is a 2011 book written by Alexander Shulgin, Tania Manning, and Paul F. Daley and published by Transform Press. It followed the earlier books ''PiHKAL, PiHKAL: A ...

'' (2011), ''The Simple Plant Isoquinolines'' (2002), and ''The Nature of Drugs'' (2021). They have also published ''Ergot Alkaloids: History, Chemistry, and Therapeutic Uses'' (2023), an English translation by Jitka Nykodemová of

Albert Hofmann Albert Hofmann (11 January 1906 – 29 April 2008) was a Swiss chemist known for being the first to synthesize, ingest, and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Hofmann's team also isolated, named and synthesi ...

's 1964 book ''Die Mutterkornalkaloide: Vom Mutterkorn zum LSD'' (''The Ergot Alkaloids: From Ergot to LSD''). According to Nick Cozzi of the Alexander Shulgin Research Institute (ASRI) in mid-2023, the group is in the process of translating

Daniel Trachsel Daniel Trachsel is a Swiss people, Swiss chemist who studies psychedelic drug, psychedelics and entactogens. He has developed and published on a large number of novel psychedelic and entactogen chemical compound, compounds, including their psycho ...

's book ''Phenethylamine: von der Struktur zur Funktion'' (''Phenethylamines: From Structure to Function'') into English, with tentative publication by Transform Press.

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