The high-voltage quest to fix the errant mind

Thomas R. Verny is a clinical psychiatrist, academic, award-winning author, poet and public speaker. He is the author of eight books, including the global bestseller The Secret Life of the Unborn Child and The Embodied Mind: Understanding the Mysteries of Cellular Memory, Consciousness and Our Bodies.

Major depressive disorder affects more than 280 million people worldwide and represents a leading cause of disability. [1] Owing to the advance of a wide range of psychiatric drugs and psychotherapies, about 60 to 70 per cent of patients improve.