#213 Mattias Desmet - 'The Psychology of Mass Formation"

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🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Mattias Desmet is recognized as the world’s leading expert on the theory of mass formation as it applies to the COVID-19 pandemic. He is a professor of clinical psychology in the Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences at Ghent University (Belgium) and a practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapist. His work has been discussed widely in the media, including on The Joe Rogan Experience and in Forbes, The New York Post, Salon.com, and Fox News, among hundreds of other outlets. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	What's up ladies and gentlemen boys and girls around the world.
0:21.4	I would like to welcome you back to the real talk with Zuby podcast.
0:25.8	Today's episode is going to be extremely interesting and insightful.
0:30.8	I'm going to be talking to Matthias Desmet who is a clinical psychologist and he is also the
0:38.3	man who popularized the term mass formation.
0:41.4	So we're going to go deep into this.
0:43.1	He's got a brand new book out which is called the psychology of totalitarianism.
0:48.3	So we're going to get deep into all of this.
0:50.4	So Matthias, welcome to the show.
0:52.3	Thank you Zuby.
0:54.3	Awesome.
0:55.3	So I've done a brief intro there but for people who are not familiar with you, please tell
0:58.6	them a little bit about yourself.
1:00.6	Yeah.
1:01.6	Sure.
1:02.6	I am a professor in clinical psychology at the Guent University in Belgium.
1:10.0	I also have a master degree in statistics and that was actually how I started to be interested
1:17.9	in the corona crisis.
1:18.9	I started to study the statistics a little bit and from the beginning, from the first days
1:23.3	of the crisis, I had the impression that the statistics dramatically overrated the dangerous
1:29.3	ness of the coronavirus.
1:30.3	I started to be interested in how it was possible that an entire population worldwide bought
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