Crystal clear diagnosis: Putin is mentally ill
If you're still wondering about Vladimir Putin's probable paranoia, today, there's no denial. Psychiatrist Daniel Zagury analyzes his behavior...
For Le Journal du Dimanche, Daniel Zagury, a psychiatrist specializing in psychopathology and forensic psychiatry, turns to "the hateful gestures" of the Russian head of state.
While he completely disconnects from reality, Putin falls into excess and "launches a headlong flight that can only be interrupted by external action," Zagury emphasizes. War, inevitably, is the only response to a deep and limitless internal hatred.
Paranoia inherent in dictatorship
Putin, like any good dictator, suffers from paranoia. For his power to survive, he must be wary of everything and everyone. “There's a functional paranoia necessary for exercising intelligence activities, from the KGB to the FSB… a paranoid reaction is one of the classic springs of mobilization against the enemy. But here we are dealing with something else: the decompensation of a mental illness,” explains Daniel Zagury.
Out of reality
The psychiatrist continues to say that: “For Putin, what's happening is truly unthinkable, unrepresentable, inconceivable. It's the atrocious dissolution of all the values of Greater Russia confused with his own person. Ukraine, hated more than anything as a fictitious creation of the dismemberment of the USSR, is in the process of militarily defeating Russia, with the active help of the hated West.” Completely subjected to his megalomania and unable to face the image of the triumphant enemy, the Russian president accelerates his attacks and mocks the West. “Reality no longer has a hold on him.”
(Mh with Manon Pierre - Source: Le Journal du Dimanche - Picture: by Kremlin.ru via Wikicommons under license Creative commons CC-BY-4.0)
