Why Lindsay Clancy's Doctor Signed Off Anyway

Fourteen video appointments. Sessions scheduled for thirty minutes. Lindsay Clancy's outpatient psychiatrist testified about exactly how those sessions worked in the months before her three children died — and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to explain what that timeline actually means.
Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder after the children died at home in Duxbury in January 2023. Her defense doesn't dispute that she caused their deaths — it argues postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder left her not criminally responsible. Prosecutors argue she acted with intention and clarity.
Shavaun, a licensed psychotherapist with more than thirty years treating trauma and studying the psychology of violence, breaks down what postpartum psychosis looks like clinically — the gap between an intrusive thought and a voice issuing commands, and why the condition can leave someone looking composed while still being dangerously unwell. Estimates put it at roughly one or two cases per thousand births, typically emerging within weeks of delivery.
The conversation then turns to the providers themselves — the psychiatrist who signed off on Clancy's hospital release, and the outpatient doctor who treated her afterward. What each was later asked on the stand, and how they answered, sits at the center of this episode.
Shavaun also unpacks how Clancy's own background as a labor and delivery nurse may have shaped the way her providers read her — and points to one moment where a provider did right by her, a small detail worth holding onto.
Clancy attempted suicide the same day her children died and now attends her trial in a wheelchair. The record left behind by the people responsible for her care is now part of what a jury has to weigh.
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