Psychiatrist testifies Clancy suffered command hallucination when she killed three children

In a Massachusetts courtroom, the trial of Lindsay Clancy — a mother who killed her three young children in January 2023 — has arrived at its most searching question: whether a mind consumed by postpartum psychosis can be held to the same moral account as a mind that chose freely. Clancy, now paralyzed after jumping from a window following the killings, does not deny what she did; her defence argues instead that she was not, in any meaningful sense, present to do it. As the jury prepares to deliberate, the case asks something law and medicine have long struggled to answer together — where illn