The world is teetering on the edge of disaster, as mass formation and the rise of totalitarianism have gone global. Yet this crisis may be avoidable, according to Mattias Desmet, a leading expert on mass formation and the author of “The Psychology of Totalitarianism.”
He is a professor of clinical psychology at Ghent University in Belgium, and a practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapist.
We discuss what mass formation is, how it develops, and how the world can avoid a repeat of its historical consequences.
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