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»So much of what happens in the world happens out of a lack of self-reflection and tragic ignorance.
Dealing with psychology is a social and political necessity.
And when I look at Putin, I would say there is a manifest personality disorder.« That's what Stefanie Stahl, bestselling author and probably Germany's best-known psychotherapist says.
Her book "The Child in You Must Find Home" topped the SPIEGEL bestseller lists for years and sold millions of copies.
Stahl speaks in the new SPIEGEL podcast »Moreno+1 about the blueprint of the human psyche.
It is based on four basic needs that every person in the world has within themselves.
These include the need for autonomy and control.
"80 percent of the people who come to me have a problem with precisely this interrelationship," says Stahl.
In an interview with Juan Moreno, Stahl explains why she thinks the lessons of individual behavior can be applied to countries and calls for us as a society to start looking at psychology and psychological knowledge: “It would be a better world."
