The Palgrave Handbook of Psychosocial Studies is a 50-chapter, 500,000-word enterprise which we have edited over the past three years and which aims to offer a wide-ranging survey of the field. It has appeared in stages as an online resource and is shortly to be published as a print volume. We have encouraged contributions of many different kinds, from formal research reviews to more personal, reflexive writing. Contributors have come from long-established scholars to newly-qualified PhDs. In this presentation, we reflect on the process of editing the work, discussing what we have learnt from it about the current standing of psychosocial studies and what it indicates about its future lines of development.