the book (coming soon!)

 Second Adolescence: the Messessary path to queer adulthood is the upcoming book from licensed psychotherapist, Adam James Cohen. Rep’d by the Susan Schulman Literary Agency (The Velvet Rage, The Artist’s Way, The Queen’s Gambit) currently out on submission.

Second Adolescence is presented as a framework for queer healing and a developmental life-stage that queer adults navigate after growing up within an anti-queer world.

Part memoir, part phenomenological, Second Adolescence provides readers a model for making sense of our experience past and present, understanding and healing from the impacts of having grown up in cultures of anti-queerness, and continuing to uncover our most liberated and true selves.

At its core, this book is about how we heal the wounds of our younger selves and gift them the experiences they needed but did not have access to.