Deborah Becker
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229 appearances
40 recordings
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5 Sep
Deborah Becker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The trial has ignited a national conversation about postpartum mental health.
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The defense says Lindsay Clancy was experiencing postpartum psychosis, a psychiatric emergency.
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Psychiatrist Dr.
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There is a dangerous misconception that the mom has to be hallucinating or hearing voices, but really it's the quieter.
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Symptoms that we miss.
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Header says about one to two of every one thousand new moms experience psychosis, which is temporary but treatable.
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For NPR News, I'm Deborah Becker in Boston.
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This is NPR.
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There are a couple of options for the jury, which is made up of nine women and three men.
Those include convicting her of first degree murder or finding her not guilty because of her mental health.
Now to reach that verdict, they'd have to find she did not know right from wrong or that she could not obey the law.
Now these so called insanity defenses rarely succeed, but in this case criminal defense attorneys say a jury might believe that the only reason a mother would do something like this is if she was mentally ill.
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There are a couple of options for the jury, which is made up of nine women and three men.
Those include convicting her of first-degree murder or finding her not guilty because of her mental health.
Now, to reach that verdict, they'd have to find she did not know right from wrong or that she could not obey the law.
Now, these so-called insanity defenses rarely succeed.
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