Perspectives on the Pandemic

In the new book The Psychology of Totalitarianism, world-renowned Professor of Clinical Psychology Mattias Desmet deconstructs the societal conditions that allow collective psychosis to take hold.

How is it possible that an entire society, experts and population included, don’t see what’s happening or continue to buy into a narrative that is blatantly wrong actually in many respects.

Mass Formation is identical to hypnosis.

Once people are in the grip of this process of mass formation they are not aware anymore of all the personal losses they suffer and that’s what’s happening now.

That is, people are not aware that they are losing everything at the moment - their wealth, their health, the future of their children and so on.

They do not notice it.

Pandemic Perspectives:

By looking at our current situation and identifying the phenomenon of “mass formation”—a type of collective hypnosis—he illustrates how close we are to surrendering to totalitarian regimes.

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Mass Formation
Mass Formation