Anatoly Kashpirovsky

Anatoly Mikhailovich Kashpirovsky ( _ru. Анатолий Михайлович Кашпировский) (born August 11, 1939) a Russian controversial hypnotists and faith healer.

Biography

Born in Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine, Kashpirovsky graduated from the Vinnitskiy Medical Institute in 1962. After this, he worked for 25 years as a psychotherapist in a psychology clinic.

He became famous in 1989 after several of his sessions with patients were shown on Soviet television. He was shown removing the pain of two patients who had just had operations on abdominal region. The first session was shown on October 9.

In 1993 he was chosen to be a Deputy of the Russian Duma. In 1995 he moved to the United States.

Kashpirovsky is a Candidate of Medical Sciences and a Master of Sports in the USSR for weightlifting.

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