Expert breaks down postpartum psychosis debate in Clancy murder trial

In a Massachusetts courtroom, the trial of Lindsay Clancy has arrived at its most fundamental question: where does illness end and culpability begin. Clancy, now paralyzed after jumping from a window following the deaths of her three young children, pleaded not guilty on grounds of postpartum psychosis — a condition her defense argues severed her from reality entirely. The prosecution counters with a diagnosis of depression, and in that gap between two medical opinions, a jury must now weigh the ancient tension between human suffering and human accountability. The case has drawn hundreds of su