Postpartum Psychosis Case Study

Dr. Lila Ryan looked over the case file she was supposed to testify on the following week. A woman who had thrown her infant child from a sixth story window. Postpartum psychosis was the diagnosis the defense attorney was pushing for, and she would going to have to evaluate the woman before then. She pushed the file back on her desk sipping at her tea, looking for a distraction, an excuse to put off the case for another day. Fortunately for her, distraction came in the form of a text, from her husband.

"Hey babe. Whenever you've some free time, can you call by. There's a case I'd like you to take a look at."

Wasn’t quite the flirtatious or romantic text she would have hoped for, but it appealed to her all the same. Tom was a practical man, and dedicated to his work, as much as she was to hers. It worked well for the couple. Their first date was actually predicated on Tom inviting her out to dinner to talk about a case. She was surprised to find out that there was no pretense to his invitation, and they spent most of the evening discussing the psyche profile of a kidnapper. Had she been anyone else, it would have been considered a lousy first date, but for Lila, it was a dream. They married a year later and things had been great ever since. Well, one occasionally got swept up in their work, but they could work it out, regardless. …show more content…
Published in the American journal of Forensic Psychology three times before she was thirty, she was already a rather successful forensic