Dr. Swann



Dr. Pauline Swan is a well-known yet a somewhat controversial psychotherapist who runs an online help site as well as a private practice. She has published books, at least three of which concerning modern culture and mental health. Her most notorious case study, challenged as fake, is one where a blind and autistic child in Peru apparently drew Mickey Mouse.

In light of the Diodati massacre pinned on Tom Taylor, Swann received questions about how to deal with children heartbroken over the thought of Tommy Taylor being a murderer; she also had patients who mentioned Tommy being involved in their apocalyptic dreams. Eventually, she wrote a whole post dedicated to the topic, and she gave an in-depth analysis of the Tommy Taylor series and its impact on people's lives.

On the Moral Massacre debate show on CBC, Swann even went as far as to claim that the Tommy Taylor phenomenon had already become a national, possibly global, mental health problem and that it is now an actual pathological disease, stating that fiction affects a person's, and humanity's in general, unconscious, and that the Tommy Taylor books have particularly affected children in drastic ways, saying that they are living in their own apocalypse. Her recently published book entitled The Poisoned Well was brought up in the discussion, and the following article covering the debate, though published before the Diodate murders, was correlated to the bloodbath and the nature of what she calls the "Tommy Taylor disease" to support her theory.