Television healer Anatoly Kashpirovsky has died

Anatoly Kashpirovsky was a Soviet psychotherapist and gained widespread fame in the late 1980s, when he began holding public hypnosis and healing sessions. His name became one of the most recognizable in Soviet TV popular culture of that time.

In 1989, his “health sessions” were broadcast on central television. Later, Kashpirovsky went on tour and drew concert halls and football stadiums.

In the 2000s, Kashpirovsky was held administratively liable for illegal folk medicine practice. In the 2010s, a criminal case was opened against him under the same article, but the court acquitted him.

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