The Lindsay Clancy case shows the limits of postpartum psychiatry Treatment options are limited, diagnosis is complicated, and the science is unfinished

https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/12/lindsay-clancy-postpartum-psychosis-diagnosis-treatment-limits/ By Jamie Maguire, Lauren M. Osborne, and Jennifer PayneAug. 12, 2026 Maguire is a professor of neuroscience at Tufts University School of Medicine. Osborne is an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and psychiatry and a reproductive psychiatrist at NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine. Payne is vice chair of research and a professor at the University of Virginia in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, as well as the director of the Reproductive Psychiatry Research Program, UVA Health.