Notes from Practice

The Lindsey Clancy case is almost impossible to talk about without having an emotional reaction. Three young children died. Their mother is accused of killing them. Their father lost his entire family in a matter of minutes. There is no version of this story that is not devastating. As a psychiatric provider, there is another part of this case that I keep coming back to: how poorly postpartum psychosis is understood. I have watched people point to details of Lindsey Clancy's