Sacred Conversations: A Talk with Susan Swim and a Father Whose Daughter Found Healing

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🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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We have two guests today. One is Susan Swim, executive director of the Now I See A Person Institute, which she created in 2007 to provide therapy and counseling to kids, teens, adults, families and others who haven’t found healing in the usual approaches to therapy and treatment. From its base in Los Angeles County, California, the Institute provides both in-person services, including equine therapy, and virtual sessions—and offers training as well.

An expert in collaborative dialogical practices, Susan Swim is also a researcher whose topics include family reunification, helping people recover from trauma after previously unsuccessful treatments, and process ethics—which she’s described as “what is right and good for every client in therapy.”

She’s also on the faculty of the Houston Galveston Institute, where she first started teaching in the early 1980s. In the past she worked for the Taos Institute and taught at Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, California. She’s written extensively on many topics and is the former editor of the Journal of Systemic Therapies.

Our other guest today is the father of a daughter who was first hospitalized at age 13 and endured years of psychiatric treatment, diagnoses, drugs, and more hospitalizations before embarking on a path to healing at the Institute.

The father will remain anonymous.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Madden America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry and social justice.
0:12.2	Our podcasts are made possible in part by a grant from the Thomas Job Fund.
0:21.9	Hello, this is James and welcome to the podcast.
0:25.3	And this week, our Family Resources editor, Amy B. Ancoly, will be talking with Dr. Susan
0:30.6	Swim, who is an expert in collaborative dialogical practices and a researcher with a special
0:36.0	interest in family reunification. But before we get into the
0:39.7	discussion, I wanted to mention how you can support our work. Mad at America is a non-profit,
0:45.0	and we've been providing free to access content since 2012. You can help by donating to allow us to
0:52.5	continue our mission to rethink psychiatry in the
0:55.2	US and around the world.
0:57.1	To donate, just visit maddenamerica.com forward slash donate.
1:01.8	Thank you for your support and now on to the podcast.
1:06.0	Hello, I'm Amy Biancoly, family editor for Mad in America, and we have two guests today on the podcast.
1:14.6	One is Susan Swim, executive director of the Now I See a Person Institute, which she created in 2007 to provide therapy and counseling to kids, teens, adults, families, and others who haven't found
1:29.3	healing in the usual approaches to therapy and treatment. From its base in Los Angeles
1:35.0	County, the Institute provides both in-person services, including equine therapy and virtual
1:41.7	sessions, and offers training as well. An expert in collaborative
1:46.8	dialogical practices, Dr. Susan Swim is also a researcher whose topics include family reunification,
1:54.8	helping people recover from trauma after previously unsuccessful treatments, and process ethics, which she has described as,
2:03.7	quote, what is right and good for every client in therapy, close quote.
2:08.5	She's also on the faculty of the Houston Galveston Institute, where she first started teaching in the early
2:14.7	1980s. In the past, she worked for the Taos Institute and taught
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