Conflicts

If you were still wondering whether or not Vladimir Putin is paranoid, we can now dispel those doubts because psychiatrist Daniel Zagury analyzed his behavior in detail.

Daniel Zagury, a psychiatrist specializing in psychopathology and forensic psychiatry, spoke to Le Journal du Dimanche about the Russian head of state's hate-soaked behavior.

At a time when he is completely disconnected from reality, Putin lapses into excesses and "embarks on a rampage that can only be stopped by external action," Zagury stressed. An inevitable war is the only answer to a deep and boundless inner hatred. 

The paranoia inherent in dictatorship
Like any true dictator, Putin suffers from paranoia. To maintain his power, he must distrust everything and everyone. "There is a functional paranoia that is necessary for the work of intelligence, from the KGB to the FSB.... the paranoid reaction is one of the classic drivers of mobilization against the enemy. But this is something else: the decompensation of a mental illness," explains Daniel Zagury.

Detached from reality
The psychiatrist continued: "For Putin, what is happening is completely unthinkable, unrepresentable, unimaginable. It is the gruesome dissolution of all the values of Greater Russia, fused with his person. Ukraine, hated more than anything else as a fake creation of the collapse of the USSR, is in the process of defeating Russia militarily, with the active help of the hated West." Completely subservient to his delusions of grandeur and unable to deal with the image of the triumphant enemy, the Russian president steps up his attacks and mocks the West. "Reality no longer has a grip on him," the psychiatrist concludes his analysis.

(FVDV and Manon Pierre for Tagtik/Source: Le Journal du Dimanche/Illustration: Pixabay)