Postpartum Psychosis: What Every Family Should Know, and How to Help a Loved One The ongoing Lindsay Clancy trial has brought a condition many families may never have heard of into national conversation: postpartum psychosis. It is important that we discuss it carefully. Postpartum psychosis is not synonymous with postpartum depression. It is not the […]
The Fourth Trimester Should Not Be an Afterthought: When Our Health System Fails Mothers
The ongoing trial of Lindsay Clancy has placed maternal mental health, postpartum psychosis, clinical decision-making, and the criminal justice system into the national spotlight. It is an extraordinarily triggering and difficult case involving the deaths of three children, and the courts must determine the questions of criminal responsibility before them. But there is another conversation […]