Some of my more important interviews include professor Mattias Desmet (the psychology of mass formation and totalitarianism), which has not yet been released, Dr.

The major surprise is that lockdowns transformed whole populations into crowds, or what Mattias Desmet has called mass formation psychosis.

https://twitter.com/MdBreathe/status/1497660159727910917 I suggest that two accounts of social psychology—the mass formation theory of Mattias Desmet and the mimetic contagion theory of Rene Girard—help to answer this question.

We are still in the phase of denial, we still cling to our false beliefs, and we still cannot comprehend the consequences of what was done to us: what we did to ourselves, perhaps, by succumbing to mass hypnosis as claimed by psychologist Mattias Desmet

Commentary To Mattias Desmet, the pandemic that crashed into 2020 was more of a state of mind than a material reality. Yes, there was a new contagious disease. Yes, we needed to take it seriously. Yes, it warranted some collective action.

Belgian psychology professor Mattias Desmet describes the hypnotic fixation of a population on a false danger as “mass formation,” which he identifies as a precursor to totalitarianism.

Mattias Desmet, the world’s leading expert on the theory of mass formation and its application on the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr.

I'm just a student of Mattias Desmet. I've made this very clear—Dr. Mattias Desmet, University of Ghent in Belgium. I've learned from him everything I know about mass formation.

” • Mattias Desmet: “The people who are not in the grip of mass formation, who typically try to wake the people up who are in the mass formation, usually won’t succeed.

One of the chapters in the book is devoted to Mattias Desmet, who talks about that and really explores that whole idea of groupthink and mob psychology, which he calls Mass Formation. That was a term that he coined for that.

One of the things that upsets me the most about this is you may recall that I was an early proponent of the logic of Mattias Desmet and his mass formation thesis.

I have discovered that a lot of the people that have not been taken up, and not become part of, the mass formation that Mattias Desmet [Belgian professor of clinical psychology at Ghent University] talks about, you know.

If we learn from the logic of Mattias Desmet and mass formation, we need to find community again. We need to find connections between each other. That doesn't mean online with your friends list, getting your dopamine rush when somebody clicks like.

Jekielek: I read a book recently and interviewed a man named Mattias Desmet. I was told that you're not familiar with his body of work. Mr. Saad: I'm not. Mr. Jekielek: His book is The Psychology of Totalitarianism.

In terms of the inexplicable behavior of the general population in response to the information which bombards all of us, the denialism and seeming hypnosis of colleagues, friends, and family, Mattias Desmet’s 21st century update of the work of Hannah