Mad World 

PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF PRESENT POLITICS

Why does global politics increasingly feel irrational, aggressive, and incapable of dialogue?

In Mad World, Dr. U Abhaya explores contemporary geopolitics through an unconventional but incisive lens: psychopathology—not as diagnosis, but as metaphor. By analyzing political systems as psychologically stressed structures, the book reveals how fear, trauma, narcissistic self-legitimation, and dissociation shape the behavior of global powers.

From the moral absolutism of U.S. foreign policy to Russia’s trauma-driven confrontation, from China’s authoritarian affect regulation to the European Union’s conflict-avoidant proceduralism, Mad World uncovers the hidden psychological logics behind political communication and power.

The book goes beyond critique. Using depth psychology, family therapy, nonviolent communication, and Buddhist ethics, it reframes geopolitics as a therapeutic process—and asks what a more psychologically mature global order might look like. A detailed case study on Myanmar illustrates how stabilization, dignity, and transformation may be pursued without ideological illusion or violent escalation.

Provocative, interdisciplinary, and deeply humane, Mad World is an invitation to rethink politics—not as a battlefield of good and evil, but as a fragile relational system in urgent need of psychological integration.