Jekielek: Mattias Desmet, Aaron Kheriaty, such a pleasure to have you on the show. Mr. Kheriaty: Thank you. Mr. Desmet: Thanks for having us.

Yet this crisis may be avoidable, according to Mattias Desmet, a leading expert on mass formation and the author of "The Psychology of Totalitarianism."

Commentary My dear friends, A long time ago but I am still here. Two weeks ago I learned on one and the same day that the LinkedIn account of Jakobien Huysman and the Facebook page of Alain Grootaers (both producers of the corona critical “Headwind” series) were permanently removed, that Dutch comedian Hans Teeuwen was visited […]

Professor of clinical psychology at Ghent University Mattias Desmet is the world’s leading expert in the phenomenon known as “mass formation,” which is a type of hypnotic state that occurs when people are isolated from one another and free-floating anxiety

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When many people feel disconnected from their social environment they become prone to fanatical belief in an unreasonable narrative, creating favorable conditions for the emergence of a totalitarian state, said Mattias Desmet, a professor of clinical

Jan Jekielek: Professor Mattias Desmet, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders. Prof. Mattias Desmet: Thank you. Thank you for inviting me. It's a pleasure to be here. Mr.

Commentary Dear friends, A few weeks ago I was invited to give a speech at the fourth International Crisis Summit in the Romanian parliament—you might know this already because I shared the text and the recording of my presentation in a previous Substack post. I couldn’t stay in Romania for long, but I found time for an […]

Commentary The Belgian politician Connor Rousseau and his social-democratic Vooruit party want to require parents to send their children to day care and kindergarten. There are still politicians who think of the children. And the logic is conclusive: The first six years of life are decisive for the future life of the child. That cannot be left to […]

The Belgian politician Connor Rousseau and his social-democratic Vooruit party want to require parents to send their children to daycare and kindergarten. There are still politicians who think of the children. And the logic is conclusive: The first six years of life are decisive for the future life of the child. That cannot be left to the parents. […]

Commentary On Jan. 25, 2023, Ghent University banned the use of my book “The Psychology of Totalitarianism” in the course “Critique of Society and Culture.” That happened in the aftermath of a media storm that erupted in September 2022 following my interviews with Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones. I already wrote about that in a previous essay. Following these media appearances, Ghent […]

Commentary In recent weeks, an offensive has been launched against me in the Flemish media. I’ve been accused of being a liar, a far-right extremist, a conspiracy theorist, controlled opposition, and of indoctrinating my students. I’ve quietly listened to every voice that felt called to make itself heard. And I have the impression that everyone who had something to […]

Commentary At the end of February 2020, the global village began to shake on its foundations. The world was presented with a foreboding crisis, the consequences of which were incalculable. In a matter of weeks, everyone was gripped by the story of a virus—a story that was undoubtedly based on facts. But on which ones? We caught a […]

They became afflicted with what philosopher Mattias Desmet calls “mass formation”; that is, being swept up with some collective movement of irrationality in the search for meaning in life.

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Mattias Desmet: In 2017, I started to gather ideas and thoughts about totalitarianism.

There is surely an element of mass psychology at work here, as Mattias Desmet has said. But even that wasn't unleashed entirely by accident. There is more going on here. That’s the part we need to know.

Mattias Desmet for the very first meeting of these three leading experts on the medical and social impact of COVID. Dr. Desmet is a clinical psychologist at the University of Ghent, Belgium.

Mattias Desmet: A technocracy is a system led by technical experts, and not by democratically elected politicians.

Bauer said her book devotes a chapter to the work of Mattias Desmet, a professor of clinical psychology at Ghent University in Belgium, who discussed the idea of "groupthink" and mob psychology, which he calls “mass formation.” Mr.

According to Mattias Desmet, professor of clinical psychology at Ghent University in Belgium, the COVID crisis is a product of “mass formation,” a collective psychosis that can occur when a significant portion of the population develops an irrational

Speaking out to articulate sincere and honest belief is the best way to break the social phenomenon known as mass formation, whereby many individuals believe in an unreasonable narrative but are unable to think critically of it, said Mattias Desmet, a

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.

Jekielek: "Mass formation," as Mattias Desmet calls it. Ms. Foster: “Men go mad in crowds and then they wake up slowly, one by one,” said one sociologist. That's what we’ve seen.

Mercola discussed the idea of "mass formation" hypnosis and mentioned Mattias Desmet, author of the book, "The Psychology of Totalitarianism," which explains how large swaths of people can be brainwashed when they're in a state of isolation and free-floating

Mattias Desmet of the University of Ghent in Belgium, who has proposed an answer to this question.

Mattias Desmet (00:12): Some of you might know me.