The Lindsay Clancy Case and the Limits of Diagnosis

The Lindsay Clancy Case and the Limits of Diagnosis

The Lindsay Clancy trial raises a larger question: What happens when diagnosing takes precedence over understanding the person who is suffering?

What fascination with Lindsay Clancy case says about society

It’s easy to see the still-unfolding case of Lindsay Clancy as unique. It’s horribly unusual for a mother to admit to murdering her own children and novel to use “postpartum psychosis” as a rationale for acquittal. But the national attention bordering on fixation that the case has attracted puts it in an American media tradition: what can […]