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When journalist Roger Cohen was just 3 years old, in 1958, his mother underwent electroshock treatment. Raised in South Africa, June Cohen, who was later diagnosed with manic depression, had moved with Roger\\u2019s father to England just a couple of years earlier. Immigrants in England, they\\u2019d chosen to uproot themselves from Johannesburg and the warm embrace they\\u2019d known there. Their own families were themselves immigrants to South Africa\\u2014they\\u2019d skirted the Holocaust, leaving Lithuania before the Nazi reign of terror but in a period when Europe was increasingly hostile to Jews.

Along with a genetic predisposition, Cohen believes all this dislocation may have contributed to his mother\\u2019s condition. What...

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