Is Lindsay Clancy's Voice Story Even Believable?

Four clinicians treated Lindsay Clancy in the months before her children died, and each of them has now testified about what they saw. None of them described psychosis. Her defense says she was hearing a voice instructing her to kill her three children and then herself.

Clancy's not guilty pleas cover three counts of first-degree murder in the Duxbury deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan on January 24, 2023. The defense has never argued she wasn't responsible for their deaths. Prosecutors contend she planned it and carried it out knowingly.

Tony Brueski brings in psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, who has practiced for more than thirty years across trauma, anxiety, depression, and the psychology of violence, for part one of a three-part conversation.

The starting point is how uncommon this is. Prevalence figures cluster around one to two cases per thousand deliveries. Researchers describe episodes where disorientation and total clarity trade places inside the same day, which is why a patient can look fine in a twenty-five-minute appointment.

Shavaun addresses the timing. This illness normally shows up within days or weeks of a birth. Callan had turned eight months.

She separates psychosis from psychopathy, explains where an intrusive thought stops and a command voice starts, and takes on why Clancy told her providers one thing and her husband another. She closes on the fact prosecutors lean on hardest: that Clancy scheduled her own appointments, advocated for herself, and presented with clear, linear thinking right up to the day before.

Her memoir, Nightbird, draws on the same clinical background. Two more parts follow this one.

Clancy survived a suicide attempt the same day and is paraplegic. She attends her trial in a wheelchair. Shavaun addresses what it means that her final appointment with a psychiatrist happened on January 23, the day before, and that the notes from it recorded a flat, anxious, numb mood with no motivation.

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