How can we explain mass adherence to ideologies in totalitarian systems, and the irrational actions they command? More than ten years ago, in my business consulting work, I coined the notion of "delusional contagion" [1] for the literature on psychosocial risks and suffering at work.

According to the WHO, individuals have rights to sexuality (to enjoyment), which cannot be repressed. These rights begin at birth ("0 years"), and it would be appropriate for adult "partners" to teach children about sexuality. The programmatic document for Europe is called The Standards for Sexuality Education in Europe [3] , with a "matrix" of teachings according to age.

Last week was dedicated to André Suarès's commitments against totalitarianism and his invitation to travel. This week we offer you another part of Suarès' work, Remedies for the Free Spirit. With our greatest wish: to encourage you to (re)discover his books.

The mark of genius is to enlighten us, even post-mortem, when times become confusing and dark. However, the most powerful stars are not always easily recognizable at first glance. We must learn to put on the right glasses to distinguish their enlightenment. Immense French author of the first half of the twentieth century, normalien, great traveler, pianist, poet, playwright, thinker, philosopher, André Suarès, through his commitments against totalitarian ugliness and in favor

Currently living in Colombia, she was one of the first to point out, in March 2020, at the beginning of the lockdown linked to the emergence of the famous Covid, that from the point of view of political philosophy, we were facing a totalitarian drift and, from the psychopathological point of view, a paranoiac delusion.

In an assisted suicide procedure, how can we truly give the person the chance to renounce their plan at the very last moment, in a final burst of life? It is true that we see many people on the streets suffering from severe psychotic disorders whom treatment has been abandoned. Their life expectancy is reduced, but it is not yet euthanasia; will we ever reach that point?

Interview with Ariane Bilheran, PhD - Part 2: the Desmet/Breggin controversy; the question of responsibility; the concept of delusional contagion, and more.   We are living a "war" against the human being, against our human rights, against the population... we have no choice but to resist and protect the sacred dimension of the human being.   This is the second part of our interview with Ariane Bilheran, PhD, philosopher, clinical psychologist, doctor in psychopathology a

The first part of our interview discusses totalitarianism and the psychological mechanisms it relies upon. The second part delves further and looks at the Mathias Desmet / Peter Breggin controversy. To understand the concept of totalitarianism, which is increasingly being discussed following the COVID-19 crisis and the various coercive measures that have been put in place, the logical step is to call on a real expert in the field.

The totalitarian drift since 2020 by Ariane Bilheran

We are rightly protesting against the totalitarian drift that has been explicitly visible since the spring of 2020. This civic, moral and spiritual protest is essential, because it expresses our concern to preserve the roots, in particular Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian, of our current civilization. If we define, in a laconic way, totalitarianism as the ambition of "total domination" (H. Arendt), with imperialist methods, including the monopoly of communication, the confisca

On March 1, 2022, the Italian writer Paolo Nori denounced the cancellation by the University of Milan-Bicocca of his course dedicated to the Russian writer Dostoevsky[3]. A curious coincidence, because if there is one literature that denounces the totalitarian temptation, it is that of Dostoevsky, as Koestler understood very well, and who even alluded to it in Darkness at Noon: "The question is whether the student Raskolnikov had the right to kill the old pawnbroker. He is yo

in the context of the current war in Ukraine, I wanted to gather the account of a key witness to wartime Afghanistan regarding the behavior and decadence of Western elites in an occupied country. This witness, of course, wishes to remain anonymous. We will call him Nikos here.

The silhouettes of an occult sect run through all of contemporary history. Are we really sure that we defeated Nazism and closed the file at Nuremberg? How then could we have allowed the personnel, techniques, and ideas of this movement to be sheltered and then recycled in post-war Europe? And why does it arouse so much fascination and denial today?

Arthur Koestler is an important witness and analyst of the totalitarian phenomenon of the twentieth century. After A Spanish Testament and Darkness at Noon, The Scum of the Earth, a manuscript written between January and March 1941, from London, recounts the French period of 1939-1940, the arbitrary round-ups, the persecutions and camps, and the flight from France.

Conflict and harassment do not mix well, because where the former is not allowed, the latter takes its place. In fact, a conflict always has a fruitful dimension, which is conceived in terms of its resolution. In harassment, the dimension is destructive. What about mediation?

For Ariane Bilheran, clinical psychologist, author of Psychopathologie de la paranoïa (Psychopathology of Paranoia) and Psychopathologie de l'autorité (Psychopathology of Authority) (Dunod), our societies are sinking into totalitarianism.

"The first chimeric man-ape embryos have been created", announces Le Monde on April 15, 2021. Far from being concerned, the political-media system celebrates the monstrosities of transhumanism. Progress that advances and Novelty that innovates are now free. All moral barriers seem to fall almost systematically accused of referring to the "world of before" or to reaction. Is the collapse of society then the only way out to prevent "homo deus" from doing his worst?

International Symposium of Mental Health organized in Portugal by Aliança Saúde Portugal, about the current pandemic of fear propagated in the humanity.

Accompanied by a quote from the writer Stefan Zweig, I want to pay tribute to all the professionals and staff (caregivers, firefighters, doctors, administrative staff, etc.) who, through their heroic refusal of blackmail and the division of the social body (which is attributed to them by a perverse reversal of guilt), have suffered reprisals from the authorities.

All totalitarian islets create their own "newspeak", for example within companies that operate by terrorizing, harassing and persecuting their employees. All totalitarianism lives off the conquest of "ideological pretension" (Hannah Arendt) and the "rectification of thought" (Mao). To overcome these ideological levels, which are increasingly moving away from the search for truth and knowledge, and to persecute opponents, the instrumentalization of language is necessary.