PROF. MATTIAS DESMET: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TOTALITARIANISM

In The Psychology of Totalitarianism, professor in Clinical Psychology MATTIAS DESMET explains the mechanisms behind Mass Formation and how this can lead to totalitarianism.

In his book The Psychology of Totalitarianism, world-renowned Professor of Clinical Psychology Mattias Desmet deconstructs the societal conditions that allow collective hypnosis to take hold. By analysing the global pandemic, he identifies the phenomenon of ‘mass formation’ and illustrates how humanity is being forcibly, unconsciously led into a reality of technocratic totalitarianism, which aggressively excludes alternative views and relies on destructive groupthink, vilifying non-conformist thought as ‘dissident.