Ellen Barry
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Aug
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You know, even women who haven't had the experience of postpartum psychosis, something as severe as that,
could relate to the experience of trying to get care in a system that is often disjointed and where they didn't feel that they were being
I also just think this is a, it's a very disturbing scene.
Like we have seen Lindsay at trial inconsolably crying and her ex-husband Patrick as well.
There is just enormous grief and it is, there's things I will never forget that I've heard at this trial.
So I just think that's part of what is affecting people so deeply.
That's right.
I met a woman outside the courthouse whose grandson went to school with Cora, one of the children.
And she was complaining that it's the nature of these trials that the victims somehow disappear.
They seem to get lost in all the testimony like they're forgotten.
And she said, you know, Miss Clancy knew she was a danger and she didn't do the things that she needed to do to keep her children safe.
Well, I think it's a little hard to know what the repercussions of a guilty verdict would be, or in the event of a hung jury, if this had to go to another trial, which also seems possible.
What I hear from people who are primarily interested in postpartum mental health disorders is that if she is found guilty and sentenced to life in prison, that it may drive women underground, that they might be less likely to come forward about their symptoms if they feel like they could be demonized
not treated with mercy.
But if she is found not guilty by reason of insanity, people in the postpartum mental health world see it as
a landmark event that might feed energy into building out systems to better protect women and their children in this situation.
A few of the things that are under discussion is there is active movement within the American Psychiatric Association to expand its manual, the DSM, to include a chapter on postpartum disorders, which would make it easier to identify and diagnose and treat them.
There is a movement to get state laws that mitigate punishment in cases where a mother harms an infant in the postpartum period.
And there is a long effort, really like a decades-long effort, to create specialized units where mothers in crisis can stay in a hospital with their babies until the danger has passed.
Yeah, I think that's right.
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