Professor Mattias Desmetas, author of the book “Psychology of Totalitarianism”, will visit Lithuania Culture

Roots of dictatorship are concerned

In the book, M. Desmet explains that totalitarianism is not a random phenomenon and does not appear in a vacuum. According to the professor, the origins of dictatorship are a certain type of collective psychosis. This generalization of M. Desmet is called the theory of mass formation.

In the book “Psychology of Totalitarianism”, the professor writes that the world has been gripped by a dangerous phenomenon – a type of collective hypnosis, when governments deliberately encourage the loneliness of the population, incite anxiety and fear to give way to censorship and even push the masses of people to act once morest their own interests, for example, to support natural rights, privacy restraint. According to the author, a single, focused narrative of the crisis prevails, prohibiting a different opinion.

Since today it is once more becoming an extremely relevant and sensitive topic, M. Desmet pays a lot of attention to its analysis and reveals the steps that lead to the conditions for totalitarianism to thrive, comparing the 20th century. the most famous guides of the dictatorship and their methodologies with the recently resurgent regimes that only use other forms of social control and the pretext for them.

Photo of the publisher/Mattias Desmetas and his book “Psychology of Totalitarianism

Became famous for theories unfavorable to governments

Due to his sharp statements unfavorable to the governments, Mr. Desmets began to be called a propagator of conspiracy theories following criticism of the management of the covid crisis. Despite some negative reactions, Mr. Desmets gathered fans from all over the world, his works are discussed in the European and United States media, as well as in famous magazines, including Forbes.

The interview with M. Desmet was watched by millions of people on various YouTube channel content creators and television talk shows. The documentary regarding the psychology professor’s theories was created by an international team of directors: Alain Grootaers, Cedrick Van Bockel and Mark Sanders.

American politician Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. was not indifferent to M. Desmet’s book “Psychology of Totalitarianism”. “Mr. Desmet wakes up a lot of people to understand what a dangerous place we are now, and perfectly distills how we got here,” said RFKennedy.

Mr. Desmet awakens many people to understand the dangerous place we are now and perfectly distills how we got here.

Mr. Desmetas has won significant awards for his scientific career, for example, in 2018. he was awarded the Evidence-Based Psychoanalytic Case Study Prize of the Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and the Wim Trijsburg Prize of the Dutch Psychotherapy Association in 2019.

Influential world politicians are happy to invite M. Desmetas to read reports. For example, in 2023 Mr. Desmets gave two presentations at the EU Parliament, in February of this year the author spoke at the US Senate at the invitation of Senator Ron Johnson, recently he gave presentations in Iceland, and in May he will visit Lithuania.

May 9 3:30 p.m. M. Desmetas will present the most important conclusions of his book “Psychology of Totalitarianism” at a press conference in the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania. Guests will be able to enter it following registering in advance.

May 9 6:00 p.m. meeting with readers at the Vilnius teachers’ house.

May 10 at 5 p.m. M. Desmetas will give a speech at Klaipėda University “Studlendas”.

The events are open to everyone and free of charge. During them, it will be possible to purchase M. Desmet’s book “Psychology of Totalitarianism” with the author’s autograph.