Clancy trial shines light on postpartum psychosis, a treatable psychiatric emergency

Three children killed by their mother during a postpartum psychosis episode; the mother attempted suicide following the incident.

In a Massachusetts courtroom, the trial of Lindsay Clancy — a mother who killed her three young children in January 2023 — has drawn the world's attention not only to a family's unimaginable loss, but to a psychiatric emergency that medicine has long struggled to name. Postpartum psychosis, a sudden and severe break from reality that can follow childbirth, remains absent from the DSM-5, the foundational text of American psychiatry, leaving clinicians undertrained, insurers uncoded, and mothers unprotected. The trial is, in this sense, larger than one family's tragedy: it is a reckoning with wh

Clancy trial shines light on postpartum psychosis, a treatable psychiatric emergency

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