January 5, 2024

https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/96633
Just What Is Mass Formation Psychosis?
— One doctor is pushing controversial theory on how the public is being coerced into getting vaxxed
Mass formation psychosis. It sounds like the name of your friend's failed high school band.

But in reality -- some reality -- it is the theory recently espoused by Robert Malone, MD, regarding public health behavior. Malone posits that promoting messages encouraging people to get vaccinated against COVID-19, among other scientifically validated pandemic communications, is an attempt to hypnotize groups of people to follow these messages against their will. Think Nazism, he has said.
This theory has been shared widely across cable news and social media, in large part because Malone was interviewed on Joe Rogan's popular podcast, "The Joe Rogan Experience."

But is "mass formation psychosis" even a legitimate medical idea?

No, it is not, according to reports and medical societies. "It seems to have been made up recently," Jay Van Bavel, PhD, associate professor of psychology and neural science at New York University, told Reuters.

Malone, who calls himself a consultant and former pathology and surgery professor, opposes the pro-vaccination messages being promulgated by federal agencies and public health leaders. These messages are being applied to manipulate people into getting vaccinated, he has argued.

Such action is an example of mass formation psychosis. When society "becomes decoupled from each other and has a free-floating anxiety in a sense that things don't make sense. ... Then their attention gets focused by a leader or series of events on one small point, just like hypnosis," Malone told Rogan, Reuters reportedopens in a new tab or window. "They literally become hypnotized and can be led anywhere ... They will follow that person -- it doesn't matter whether they lie to them or whatever, the data are irrelevant."

"Mass formation psychosis" garnered more than 100,000 interactions on public Facebook pages, groups, and verified profiles within a few days after the Rogan interview, according to reports citing the social media monitoring site CrowdTangle.

But the term does not exist in the psychology literature, nor does it appear in the American Psychological Association Dictionary of Psychologyopens in a new tab or window or its PsycNet databaseopens in a new tab or window.

"There are similar-sounding concepts, like 'mass psychogenic illness,' but the scope of these is relatively narrow compared to what is being proposed here," Van Bavel said.

Malone's argument is similar to discredited concepts, such as "mob mentality" and "group mind," John Drury, MSc, PhD, a social psychologist at the University of Sussex in England, told the APopens in a new tab or window. "No respectable psychologist agrees with these ideas now."
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