Transform Press


Transform Press is a small publishing company in the area of psychedelics and other psychoactive drugs that is based in Berkeley, California. It is the publisher of the books of Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin and is led by Wendy Tucker, Ann Shulgin's daughter.
The company's published books by the Shulgins include PiHKAL , TiHKAL , The Shulgin Index, The Simple Plant Isoquinolines, and The Nature of Drugs. They have also published Ergot Alkaloids: History, Chemistry, and Therapeutic Uses, an English translation by Jitka Nykodemová of Albert Hofmann's 1964 book Die Mutterkornalkaloide: Vom Mutterkorn zum LSD.
According to Nick Cozzi of the Alexander Shulgin Research Institute in mid-2023, the group is in the process of translating Daniel Trachsel's book Phenethylamine: von der Struktur zur Funktion into English, with tentative publication by Transform Press.