Swimming to the Horizon

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Swimming to the Horizon</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> is a look at the bottom rungs of the community mental health system where clinicians with little experience or training often work with patients holding together lives burdened by drug addiction severe psychosis poverty and generations of trauma. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Zak Mucha took over an assertive community treatment team created to provide twenty-four seven clinical services for a client population we typically only see on the local news when police interventions turn into tragedies. In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Swimming to the Horizon</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> we learn that therapy is provided not merely in fifty-minute sessions but in those moments spent attending to life in flophouse hotels emergency rooms grocery stores alleyways and courtrooms.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>