Robert Malone on mass-formation-psychosis: what the evidence says · JRE #1757
SUBJECT: MASS-FORMATION-PSYCHOSIS
Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.
in the 20s and 30s. Very intelligent, highly educated population and they went barking mad. And they went barking mad. And how did that happen? The answer is mass formation psychosis.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
Malone claims a phenomenon he calls "mass formation psychosis," credited to Belgian psychologist Mattias Desmet, explains both Germany's turn to Nazism in the 1920s-30s and public compliance with COVID-19 measures. Multiple academic psychologists consulted by the Associated Press, including NYU's Jay Van Bavel and University of St Andrews professor Stephen Reicher, said they had never encountered the term in peer-reviewed literature and described it as unsupported by evidence, comparing it to previously discredited concepts like "mob mentality." Mainstream historical and psychiatric scholarship on the Nazi era attributes the rise of Nazism to a complex mix of economic collapse, institutional failure, propaganda, and political violence; no peer-reviewed literature reviewed identifies "mass formation psychosis" as an explanatory framework for that period. The claim is best characterized as a non-clinical concept rejected by the psychologists consulted and not corroborated by historical scholarship on Nazi Germany.