Psychology Today | 22.01.2026 08:14
As a psychotherapist with over 30 years of clinical experience, I am often asked to make sense of the profound psychological divisions currently defining our national political landscape—particularly in moments when actions, such as threatening a long-standing ally like Denmark, appear to undermine international stability, diplomatic norms, and NATO principles. Observers naturally ask whether this reflects, "folie à plusieurs," a shared delusional process. While such a diagnosis is neither literal nor clinically precise in this context, the behavior is nevertheless difficult to reconcile through conventional logic alone. At best, we are left only to speculate and scratch our bewildered heads.
