Soviet and Russian psychotherapist and hypnotist Anatoli Kashpirovsky has died at the age of 87.
elchi reports that Russian TV presenter Andrey Malakhov announced this.
Kashpirovsky’s cause of death was acute heart failure. Although his relatives called for emergency medical assistance, he could not be saved. He died in his own home.
Anatoli Kashpirovsky became a superstar in the late 1980s thanks to his “healing sessions” on television. Despite his medical education, his methods of remote suggestion were harshly criticized by scientists and doctors for being unscientific, and consequently, such programs were banned.
From the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 until the spring of 2026, he was active on his YouTube channel, where he conducted live broadcasts and “remote healing sessions”.
Anatoli Kashpirovsky was born on August 11, 1939, in the village of Stavnik, Khmelnytskyi Oblast. He graduated from the Vinnytsia Medical Institute in 1962. After that, he worked in a psychiatric hospital for about 25 years.
In 1988-1989, he worked in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, and conducted television sessions, including programs for children suffering from enuresis.
He gained popularity after the television programs “Healing Sessions of Doctor-Psychotherapist Anatoli Kashpirovsky” aired on the Central Television of the USSR from October 1989. Millions of people watched these programs.
Particularly, the Kyiv-Moscow and Kyiv-Tbilisi telebridges caused a great resonance. During these broadcasts, Kashpirovsky claimed to have a remote analgesic effect on patients during surgeries. However, the conditions of those surgeries and the analgesic role of hypnosis later became a subject of debate.
He was a deputy of the State Duma of Russia from 1993 to 1995.