What Lindsay Clancy's Doctor Had Never Actually Seen

A psychiatrist signed off on Lindsay Clancy's release from McLean Hospital. On cross-examination, she was asked a simple question — how many cases like this had she actually seen. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to unpack what that answer means for a case built on whether Clancy's illness was real enough to excuse what happened.
Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder after her children died at home in Duxbury in January 2023. Neither side disputes that she caused their deaths. Her defense argues postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder left her not criminally responsible. Prosecutors argue she knew exactly what she was doing.
Shavaun, a licensed psychotherapist with more than thirty years in trauma and the psychology of violence, walks through what postpartum psychosis looks like from the inside — the difference between an intrusive thought and a command voice, and why a person can seem composed while still being seriously ill. Research estimates the condition affects roughly one or two births per thousand, usually surfacing within weeks of delivery.
Then the episode turns to Clancy's outpatient psychiatrist, who treated her by video through fourteen appointments in the months before the killings. Those sessions were scheduled for thirty minutes. What actually happened inside them is a separate question — one Clancy's own civil suit answers differently than her provider's records do.
Shavaun also addresses something easy to miss: Clancy spent her career as a labor and delivery nurse, which may have shaped how seriously her own reports were taken by the people responsible for her care.
Clancy attempted suicide the same day her children died and now appears at trial in a wheelchair. What her providers did — and didn't — do in the weeks before is now part of the record a jury has to weigh.
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