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The Psychology of Totalitarianism
Written by Mattias Desmet
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This book offers a sharp critique of the cultural groupthink outlining our current societal landscape, media consumption, and reliance on manipulative technologies.
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Mattias Desmet
Mattias Desmet is a professor of clinical psychology in the Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences at Ghent University and a practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapist. In 2018, he received the Evidence-Based Psychoanalytic Case Study Prize of the Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and in 2019, he received the Wim Trijsburg Prize of the Dutch Association of Psychotherapy.
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