by Peter R. Breggin MD and Ginger Ross Breggin, July 27, 2022
The author of the idea calls it mass formation and mass hypnosis. Others have added mass psychosis. He began promoting the concept in Europe to many enthusiastic media, intellectuals, scientists, and physicians. Then it took off in America, where “mass hypnosis” has become a buzzword among critics of COVID-19 policies and practices.
The synonymous concepts of mass formation, mass hypnosis, and mass psychosis have an obvious damaging impact on the international health freedom movement and on the cause of liberty everywhere. These concepts take our eyes off the totalitarian global predators who are taking over and exploiting humanity. They restrain us from charging these predators with criminal conspiracy if we win the battle with them. The pernicious effects of the Desmet/Malone ideology came fully into light with the recent publication of Desmet’s The Psychology of Totalitarianism and Malone’s continuing efforts in support of mass psychosis.
Now the author of the concept, European psychoanalyst Mattias Desmet, has written a book, The Psychology of Totalitarianism. I’m a psychiatrist and, like Desmet, I’m a psychotherapist; but early in my career, I rejected joining one of Freud’s psychoanalytic institutes for special training. I did that for many reasons... READ MORE
The Desmet/Malone Ideology of Mass Psychosis Blames the Citizens and Not the Global Predators
by Peter R. Breggin MD and Ginger Ross Breggin, August 22, 2022
We have already published a lengthy, in-depth analysis1 of Mattias Desmet’s book The Psychology of Totalitarianism. Desmet proposes that a large segment of the population suffers from self-induced mass transformations, otherwise known as mass hypnosis, and popularized as “mass psychosis” by Robert Malone, MD. Whether Desmet or Malone consciously intended it, their ideology has seriously harmful effects similar to a psyops — a psychological operation — aimed at paralyzing the health freedom movement and freedom movements worldwide.
Many thoughtful people who listened to him felt, at long last, they had a label to put on their fellow citizens who were acting zombie-like, soulless, and compliant in response to draconian pandemic measures and all the lies they were being told. Some of the most dedicated reformers in the truth-in-science and freedom movement embraced his ideas. To many, it was a relief to be able to label it — mass formation or mass hypnosis — and to think that there was good science or psychology to bolster the diagnosis.
The strategy for undermining the people and ignoring the perpetrators is twofold... READ MORE
Mass Formation and Mass Psychosis: A False and Dangerous Concept that Threatens Our Freedom
by Peter R. Breggin MD and Ginger Ross Breggin, September 3, 2022
The question is, “Who should we blame for the current degradation of constitutional democracies worldwide and the associated vast losses of freedom?” Mass formation or mass psychosis theory says we must blame the people themselves who allegedly yearn for totalitarianism under the spell of mass formation hypnosis or mass psychosis. We believe, instead, that we must hold responsible ⏤ the global totalitarian governance that authoritarian individuals and institutions are inflicting on us.... READ MORE
Psychotherapist Mattias Desmet Failed to Report His Own Mass Murderer Patient
by Peter R. Breggin MD and Ginger Ross Breggin, September 5, 2022
Mattias Desmet, the psychotherapist, and professor of psychology whom we have criticized as a leading apologist for political mass murderers, actually knew that one of his own patients was an unrecognized mass murderer and then let him go without reporting him because he thought his psychotherapy had cured him for life. The predator had been killing people since he was 22 and was an older man, with a lifetime of multiple murders when he saw Desmet in therapy.... READ MORE
A Much Better Explanation than “Mass Psychosis” — One That Encourages Freedom
by Peter R. Breggin MD and Ginger Ross Breggin, September 8, 2022
Dear Healthcare Freedom Fighters and all who are defending freedom in America, we are addressing this to all of you. But we especially want to respond to those who feel that Mattias Desmet and Robert Malone have helped you by describing mass psychosis which seems to explain what you yourselves are witnessing every day with your own eyes among your colleagues and other healthcare providers, and even among friends and family. Some have asked us for a better explanation of the rampant demoralization and loss of critical or independent thinking you see around you, and here it is.... READ MORE
Peter Breggin Says ‘Mass Formation’ is Nonsense
Peter Breggin on Jerm Warfare with Jeremy Nell - 19 August 2022
"Mattias Desmet was also previously on Jerm Warfare with Jeremy Nell, in which he chatted about a concept called “mass formation” (or “mass hypnosis”). Mattias is a Professor Of Clinical Psychology at Ghent University in Belgium, and made a persuasive argument about why groups of people end up blindly complying and behaving like sheep.
Robert Malone popularised the phrase “mass formation” during his Joe Rogan appearance. The idea made sense to me too, as it explained the zombie-like behaviour around me since the start of the pseudopandemic.
However, Peter Breggin wrote a fascinating critique, which I read during a flight recently, and it had me scratching my head. It was like swallowing a red pill again..." READ MORE
BACKGROUND RESOURCES:
(1) Desmet Facebook Response to Breggins' Initial Criticism, July 30, 2022.
"Dear friends and followers, during my holiday I had planned to leave social media as much as possible for what they are, but sometimes a person makes a small exception. Last week, I received the same review of my book repeatedly, a review by the American psychiatrist Peter Breggin and his wife Ginger Ross Breggin..." READ MORE (English) - READ MORE (Dutch)
(2) Scientific Articles Weaponizing Psychiatry Against Conservative, Anti-Globalist Views
-Dutch psychiatric article by Veling etal: Are conspiracy theorists psychotic? A comparison between conspiracy theories and paranoid delusions (in English).
"Conspiracy theories are popular during the corona pandemic. Conspiracy thinking is characterized by the strong belief that a certain situation, perceived as unjust, is the result of a deliberate conspiracy by a group of people with bad intentions. Conspiracy thinking seems to have many similarities with paranoid delusions... READ MORE (English) ~ READ MORE (Dutch)
Citations (selection) in Dutch Article:
-2020 Freeman etal; Psychological Medicine article: Coronavirus conspiracy beliefs, mistrust and compliance with government guidelines in England, May 2020
-QAnon Offenders in the United States Jensen, Michael and Sheehan Kane. 2021. "QAnon Offenders in the United States." College Park, MD: START.
(3) Conspiracy Beliefs and Violent Extremist Intentions: The Contingent Effects of Self-efficacy, Self-control and Law-related Morality.
"This study analyzes the effects of conspiracy beliefs on violent extremist intentions. More specifically, we investigate whether the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and violent extremism depends upon individual characteristics such as varying levels of self-efficacy, self-control, and law-relevant morality. Variable interactions examine where conspiracy beliefs exert strong effects on violent extremist intentions..." READ MORE
(4) START ~ National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (A Department of Homeland Security emeritus Center of Excellence led by the University of Maryland)
-Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS)
(5) Mercola Interview of Malone August 2022 in which Malone Admits to "truly Deep State intelligence community" Background
"Dr. Robert Malone: ‘Gaslighted, Ridiculed, Defamed’ — But Not Discredited. Like others who tried to share truth and opinions that differ from the official COVID-19 narrative, Dr. Robert Malone said he’s been viciously attacked by media, but wisdom and knowledge are now being validated on a near-daily basis..." READ MORE
(6) Pharmaceutical Sciences Experts Profiles Robert W. Malone, President & CEO Pharmaceutical, Atheric Pharmaceutical, United States of America
"Robert W. Malone, M.D., M.Sci. CEO, CSO, co-founder and board of manager member of Atheric Pharmaceutical, LLC. Dr. Malone has extensive research and development experience in the areas of clinical trials, vaccines, gene therapy, bio-defense, and immunology. He has over twenty years of management and leadership experience in the academia, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. His FDA, HHS, and DoD agency knowledge is extensive..." READ MORE
(7) Malone Resume to Support Medical Expert Opinion, Filed November 20, 2021
Declaration of Robert Malone, MD, MS, in Support of Plaintiffs’ Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction... READ MORE
(8) Robert W Malone MD CV ~ March 2017
"Dr. Malone is internationally recognized as one of the original inventors of “DNA Vaccination.” He holds numerous fundamental domestic and foreign patents in the fields of gene delivery, delivery formulations, and vaccines, has over fifty publications, has served as an invited speaker at over thirty conferences, has chaired numerous conferences, and has sat on numerous US Federal study sections..." READ MORE
(9) Administrative State: bad training -> bad decisions: “Forming, storming, norming and performing” consensus drives towards Groupthink August 16, 2022 ~ Substack by Robert W. Malone MD
"Those who routinely read these substack essays and our social media posts know that Jill and I have been on a journey of discovery, a root cause analysis approach, trying to make sense of the horrid public policy decision making that has resulted in the COVIDcrisis..." READ MORE
(10) “If you control the food supply, you control everything,”: The UN envisions a global command economy August 9, 2020 ~ Substack by Robert W. Malone MD
"I spent the afternoon reading the UN’s 2030 agenda, with its 17 goals and 169 targets. This is an agenda that the UN has been working towards building since 1992 - Frankly, it was terrifying...." READ MORE
(11) Groupthink: we are all victims: US HHS response to COVID was textbook, in all the wrong ways August 6, 2020 ~ Substack by Robert W. Malone MD
"We all seek to understand the root causes of the COVIDcrisis. We crave an answer, and hope is that we can find some sort of rationale for the harm that has been done, something that will help make sense out of one of the most profound policy fiascos in the history of the United States. In tracing the various threads which seem to lead towards comprehension of the larger issues and processes, there has been a tendency to focus on external actors and forces..." READ MORE
(12) Send in the HHS clowns: Why Public Health Officials running the COVID-circus have failed our country July 20, 2022 ~ Substack by Robert W. Malone MD
"There is only one thing our government wants to do right now, and that is sweep the whole stinking mess, that is rotting from the inside - under the rug. The only question is, will they get away with it?..." READ MORE
(13) Caged animals are safe, but it is not much of a life. ~ Substack by Robert W. Malone MD
"Unlike those who have been “black pilled” and who conclude overwhelming grand conspiracies as the explanation for everything having to do with the COVID crisis, I try to constrain my interpretations by the boundaries of the verifiable...." READ MORE
(14) Psychotherapist Mattias Desmet failed to report his mass murderer patient
"At the assize trial against Ivo Poppe (61) the psychotherapist of the accused explained their conversations. Professor Mattias Desmet knew about the facts, but decided to abide by his professional secrecy..." READ MORE (English) - READ MORE (Dutch)
(15) Clash on Poppe trial: chairman obliges professor who withheld confession to submit therapy reports
...Chairman Bart Meganck. "Mr. Poppe was still working in the hospital, but for you it was apparently enough that he promised not to kill again. Didn't you take a big risk then?" Mr. Poppe had confessed to his therapist, Mattias Desmet, that he had murdered dozens of people, but Desmet did not report him to police.... READ MORE (English) - READ MORE (Dutch)
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