Mattias Desmet is a Professor of Clinical Psychology, a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist at Ghent University in Belgium and holds a masters degree in statistics and has published 126 articles in peer-reviewed journals.
As an academic researcher, Mattias started to study the statistics presented around the current events in early 2020 and it became clear to him that the stats needed further exploration and discussion and he became concerned by the consensus narrative.
Professor Desmet began working on his theory of mass formation well before the pandemic began, but during the pandemic he watched the phenomenon play out in real time. The kind of collective hypnosis that occurs when a population is under certain disconnected, fearful societal conditions.
Professor Desmet’s theory grabbed attention after Dr Robert Malone began speaking about the hypothesis of “mass formation psychosis” on Joe Rogan’s podcast in late December 2021. Professor Desmet refers to the phenomenon as simply “mass formation”.
His new book, The Psychology of Totalitarianism, lays out what mass formation is, how it develops, how it leads to totalitarianism, and what we must do to change the conditions that makes these mass formation events possible.
This page captures interviews with Professor Desmet, as well as “push-back” articles and information against the term Mass Formation.
Professor Desmet’s interviews in reverse chronological order
Additional links will be added to from time to time
2024
Febraury 16, 2024 – Illusion of Consensus podcast w/ Jay Bhattacharya Ep 32: The Psychology of Totalitarianism with Mattias Desmet – WATCH
2023
November 18-19, 2023 – International Crisis Summit IV (ICS4) | European Parliament Romania: Dr. Mattias Desmet: Technocratic Totalitarianism – WATCH & READ (Dr Malone substack)
September 18, 2023 – Daily Clout w/ Dr Wolf: What is ‘Mass Formation’? The Psychology of Totalitarianism with Dr. Mattias Desmet – WATCH
2022
October 11, 2022 – By their fruits you will know them – An interview with Prof. Mattias Desmet – WATCH
September 29, 2022 – Ivor Cummin: Ep158 Prof Mattias Desmet Live: Debunking the Mass Formation Critics! – WATCH
September 22, 2021 – Pandemic Podcast with Dan Astin-Gregory: WHY DO SO MANY STILL BUY INTO THE NARRATIVE? | Professor Matthias Desmet – WATCH
September 13, 2022 – Corona Investigative Committee: Juxtaposing: Peter Breggin & Mattias Desmet discussion (English | Ad-Hoc 27 & Ad-Hoc 28) – WATCH, GETTR
September 8, 2022 – The Highwire Ep 284: INSIDE THE MIND OF THE MASSES – Mattias Desmet on how we can help break out of the current global ‘mass formation’ – WATCH, BACKUP, FULL
“For me, what I hope for the future, is that a new society will emerge which functions according to real, original, ethical principles…and I think it will be a small group who rediscovers’ these principles, and who reintroduces them…”
Mattias Desmet [@1:15:00]
September 3, 2022 – Info Wars with Alex Jones: Mass Formation Hypnosis: The Psychology of Totalitarianism Exposed, Professor Mattias Desmet In-Studio – WATCH
September 2, 2022 – Bannons War Room: Prof. Mattias Desmet on the Mass Formation of COVID Ideas for Americans by the Elite – WATCH
September 1, 2022 – Fox News | Tucker Carlson: Tucker provides an excerpt of his interview with professor Mattias Desmet discussing mass formation psychosis in the latest episode of ‘Tucker Carlson Today.’ – “Mass Formation is what we are seeing now” – WATCH, TWEET
August 12, 2022 – What is Money? Show: The Psychology of Totalitarianism with Mattias Desmet (WiM201) – WATCH, PODCAST
July 22, 2022 – Ivor Cummin: Ep150: Stunning: My Most Important Interview Yet – HOW the past two years happened an interview Mattias Desmet – WATCH, EXCERPT
- It is crucially important the the dissident voices also continue to speak out as it disturbs the hypnotic state, the mass formation. That small group typically tries to show the the people how absurd the narrative is.
June 16, 2022 – American Thought Leaders: Mattias Desmet: ‘Mass Formation’ Hypnosis and the Rise of Technocratic Totalitarianism – WATCH
June 15, 2022 – Maria Zeee: Professor Mattias Desmet – How to Break Mass Formation Before it’s Too Late – WATCH
June 12, 2022 – Brownstone Institute: Mattias Desmet on the Totalitarianism of Mass Panic – READ
June 4, 2022 – A Neighbor’s Choice: THINGS HIDDEN 60: Mattias Desmet on Mimesis and Mass Formation – WATCH
May 30, 2022 – The Corbett Report Interview #1730 – Breaking Free From Mass Formation with Mattias Desmet – WATCH, NOTES, EXCERPT
“The people who articulate a dissonant voice might not be able to wake up the masses, but that doesn’t mean that their voice has no effect. It has an extremely important effect; it constantly disturbs the mass formation. And that [prevents] the mass formation [from going] so deep that the people in the mass become convinced that they have to eliminate, that they have to destroy the people who do not go along with them.”
Mattias Desmet
“Mass Formation Is Not Similar to Hypnosis; It’s Identical”
EXCERPT
January 26, 2022 – Dr Robert Malone Substack: Understanding Mass Formation with Mattias Desmet – READ
January 16, 2022 – Mark Groves Podcast: Understanding Mass Formation with Mattias Desmet – WATCH
January 15, 2022 – Corona Investigative Committee Session 87: We are all David with Prof. Mattias Desmet – WATCH
January 11, 2022 – Dr Robert W Malone MD, MS Substack: Mass Formation: Deployed on You After Over 200 Years of Study – READ
Totalitarianism is characterized by processes of large scale mass formation and 4 conditions are needed for this large scale mass formation to occur:
- A large amount of people must feel alone and isolated
- Their lives must feel pointless and meaningless
- There must be high levels of free floating anxiety
- There must be high levels of free-floating frustration and aggression
Abridged from M. Desmet book: “The Psychology of Totalitarianism”
Professor Desmet believes all four factors have been met through the weaponisation of the COVID-19 pandemic by governments, media and the pharmaceutical industry.
January 5, 2022 – Militant Church: Big Media mad at “Mass Formation Psychosis” – WATCH, READ, YouTube
Mainstream media, Big Tech titans and “fact-checkers” have launched a coordinated blitzkrieg against the term “mass formation psychosis” popularized by mRNA vaccine platform inventor Dr. Robert Malone.
The designation used by Malone to unmask the global hysteria triggered by State-sponsored fearmongering over the China virus went viral after the scientist unveiled it on the Dec. 31 episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, which was viewed by over 11 million people.
January 4, 2022: TPC #653: Dr. Mattias Desmet, Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Peter McCullough (Mass Formation Psychosis) – WATCH
2021
December 6, 2021 – Larry Burk Substack on “Mass Hypnosis 2001-2021: Wake Up Now!” -Gaslighting the Way to Globalism – READ
“Desmet suggests three ways to break the mass formation:
- The 1st is for the dissidents to form one large group which gives the fence-sitters in the middle who do not want to be ostracized an alternative social bonding platform.
- The 2nd is to speak out loudly to minimize the hypnosis and wake up some already under the spell.
- The 3rd is to create parallel structures within society to give birth to a parallel culture that functions as a sanctuary of sanity.
The good news is that totalitarian systems always fall apart as the psychological underpinnings are so self-destructive. Wake up now!”
December 3, 2021 – Peak Prosperity: Mattias Desmet on Our Grave Situation – WATCH
October 21, 2021 – Aubrey Marcus: Psychological Tricks That Make People Willingly Give Up Their Freedom with Prof. Mattias Desmet – WATCH
October 18, 2021 – Headwinds docu-series Part 2: Prof. Mattias Desmet about the psychology of totalitarianism – WATCH, SOURCE
July 31, 2021 – Corona Investigative Committee Session 63 – In the eye of the storm with Professor Mattias Desmet – WATCH, SECTION, BACKUP
