Anatoly Kashpirovsky

Anatoly Mikhailovich Kashpirovsky (Ukrainian: Анатолій Михайлович Кашпіровський, Russian: Анато́лий Миха́йлович Кашпиро́вский, born 1939) is a Russian psychotherapist of Ukrainian origin, claimed to be a hypnotist and a psychic healer. He enjoyed great popularity in the Soviet Union. Around 2010 he was again performing mass healing rituals in front of large audiences, although he never returned to his former popularity.[1]

Anatoly Kashpirovsky
Born
Anatoliy Mikhailovich Kashpirovskiy

(1939-08-11) August 11, 1939
Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine, USSR
Alma materVinnitsa National Medical University
OccupationPsychotherapist
Websitewww.kashpirovskiy.com

Biography

Born in Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine, USSR, Kashpirovsky graduated from the Vinnitskiy Medical Institute in 1962. After this, he worked for 25 years as a psychiatrist in a psychiatric hospital.

He became famous in 1989 after several of his sessions with patients were shown on Soviet television. Among other things, he was shown to remove the pain of two patients who remained conscious during abdominal surgery by addressing them by teleconferencing.[2] The first session was shown on October 9, 1989, on the Central Channel of the USSR.

In 1993 he was elected to be a Deputy of the Russian Duma.

References
  1. "The Shadow of Doctor Kashpirovsky" (in Russian). Archived from the original on March 23, 2010. Retrieved March 26, 2010.
  2. "Фрагмент из книги "Формула огня" | Анатолий Кашпировский". Kashpirovskiy.com. Archived from the original on 2012-04-23. Retrieved 2012-08-02.


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