Thomas R. Verny

Thomas R. Verny MD, DHL (Hon), DPsych, FRCPC, FAPA s a psychiatrist, academic, award-winning author, poet, global speaker, blogger on Psychology Today and columnist for The Globe and Mail. He has previously taught at Harvard University, University of Toronto, York University (Toronto), St. Mary’s University (Minneapolis) and the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute. Verny is the author of eight books, including The Secret Life of the Unborn Child, published in 37 countries. As of June 2026, 83 institutions in 41 countries across 53 journals cited his work, more than 550,000 people viewed his blogs on Psychology Today and his YouTube channel has received 92,943 views.

In The Embodied Mind, Understanding the Mysteries of Cellular Memory, Consciousness, and Our Bodies, 2021, (Pegasus, NY), his most ambitious work to date, Verny draws on the latest research in cell biology, epigenetics, and quantum physics to advance a bold, evidence-based theory: that consciousness and memory are not confined to the brain but distributed throughout every cell in the body. It has been published in Spanish, Greek, Russian, Portuguese, and Czech.  A German edition will appear this year.

Verny lives with his wife in Stratford, Canada. He is a member of the Ontario Review Board (ORB), contributes a monthly column under the heading, "The Age of Breakthroughs" to The Globe and Mail, and a blog on Psychology Today. He is Editor Emeritus for “The International Journal of Prenatal & Life Sciences.”