Thierry MEDYNSKI, physician, psychotherapist, DEA in European Studies
Last updated: June 20, 2026
This site presents a transdisciplinary approach at a time when knowledge remains compartmentalized. This approach belongs to political psychology applied to European construction. It draws on institutional, economic, geopolitical, psychological, and anthropological concepts. This is, in particular, the main theme of the two latest videos: a psycho-socio-political approach to Europe, and Europe crossed by emotions.
This site presents a radical critique of the European Union as it currently exists. This is the diagnostic stage. This site is deeply pro-European, not for the Europe that exists today, but for the Europe that could have been and could still become. This is the proposed solution.
Europe's theoretical objectives (and the hidden ones) / the key dates of European construction / the European institutions / the economic and geopolitical track record / moral collapse and the evolution since 1984 toward a pathocracy (Dr Andrew Lobaczewski) / a catastrophic track record / the causes of the opacity of European construction / the idea of Europe, European identity / the work of Emmanuel Todd / the time to choose to break free from a pathocratic system / double democracy (Dr Philippe Court-Payen), a model consistent with European identity.
Europe has mismanaged its relationship with Russia since 1991, which prompted Russia to invade Ukraine, even though this contravenes international law, which unfortunately has not existed since NATO's war against Serbia and then Iraq. We ignored the tacit agreements between Americans and Russians between 1990 and 1991, and the warnings of the most respected American experts (George Kennan, Jack Matlock, William Burns, Henry Kissinger, John Mearsheimer). We refused to integrate Russia into a shared security architecture. Yet Europe refuses to question its own responsibility, and disqualifies any dissenting opinion in order to avoid a substantive debate. We have entered into direct confrontation with Russia, risking a brutal Russian reaction against a European country (the United Kingdom, Germany, the Baltic States, Poland...).
The record for France. The record for the European Union. How the double-democracy model could be adapted to France. Taking into account the needs of every human being and developing health promotion with its determinants. The democratic urgency to break free from a pathocratic system.
The individuation process (Carl Gustav Jung) makes it possible to identify three mutations in the history of Europe: first mutation and the exogamy process / second mutation and the secularization process / third mutation and the conjunction of opposites. The third mutation begins with the first international peace conference (1899) and the birth of quantum physics (1900). It aims to move beyond the great ideological conflicts, to escape the conflict of opposites (the struggle between "good" and "evil") through a reconciliation of opposites, in reference to the individuation process.
Federalization and the dilution of nations, or sovereignism in its various forms (pure sovereignism, confederation, European community): such a debate has never taken place because Europe was built without the peoples' knowledge.
The different missed opportunities to support the third mutation, with two founding dates: 1899, the first international peace conference, and 1900, the birth of quantum physics and the questioning of materialism.
Building on Emmanuel Todd's work on family systems across Europe, Carl Gustav Jung's individuation process, Vamik Volkan's work on large-group psychology, Kalypso Nicolaïdis's Demoicracy, Karl Deutsch's security community, and Philippe Court-Payen's double-democracy, this transdisciplinary approach aims to understand Europe's unconscious path and to sketch out what it could become: a polycentric European Community (see also this symbolic representation of Europe).
Contrary to what was stated in the video, the orchid created for the 50th anniversary of the Council of Europe, presented on March 12, 1999 (12 days before the start of NATO's bombing of Serbia) at the opening of the orchid flower exhibition in Strasbourg, was a Phalaenopsis hybrid, not a cymbidium (see a depiction on this poster, kindly provided by Françoise Jaehn, president of AROS, the regional association of orchid growers of Strasbourg).
This video continues what the previous one addressed with the transdisciplinary approach and the individuation process — an individuation process applied at the European scale. Here we focus more specifically on the work of integrating emotions at the European scale. This is the last of this series devoted to Europe.
This site presents a compilation of my research since 1987. It is based on a psycho-socio-political approach to Europe with a transdisciplinary vision:
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