Mass Formation Psychosis Explained by Mattias Desmet.

Mass Formation Psychosis Explained by Mattias Desmet.

Mattias Desmet Is a Professor of Psychology at Ghent University in Belgium.

He focuses on mass crowd formation, totalitarianism, mass hypnosis, indoctrination, and how the human mind works.

A generalised sense of anxiety leaves a population in a hypnotic state, vulnerable to suggestion. Mass formation draws on work by the 19th century writer Gustave Bon, commonly credited as the father of crowd psychology. Le Bon was avidly read by Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini, and became a huge influence on Louis Bernays, Freud’s nephew and the inventor of modern public relations.