Mattias Desmet is a Belgian clinical psychologist and professor of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, best known for his work on mass formation and the psychological underpinnings of totalitarianism. He joins David CM Carter for a focused, eye-opening conversation on collective behaviour, censorship, and the subtle mechanisms that shape public compliance.
What conditions lead ordinary people to abandon reason – and embrace tyranny?
This conversation explores how fear, isolation, and repeated messaging can lead to a state of mass formation — and what it takes to remain sovereign in our thinking and responses.
Desmet, the author of The Psychology of Totalitarianism, unpacks the deeper forces at play in today’s information war – and how we reclaim individual and collective clarity.
Together, they explore how meaning collapses in the face of imposed narratives, and why truth, community, and conscious presence are the antidotes to collective hypnosis.
Beyond the mainstream. Discover some truths about ‘the truth’. A conversation worth joining.
This isn’t just content.
It’s a contract – with truth, with action, and with a future worth showing up for.
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