On October 9, 1989, the first television show of Anatoly Kashpirovsky took place on Central TV of the USSR. Many people still remember this. Millions of people then gathered in front of blue screens to get rid of warts, ulcers, alcoholism and many other diseases forever. Broadcasts of the sessions were watched by everyone - from housewives to ministers. Among the spectators there were many who were truly helped by these sessions.
People believed that the doctor charged them with positive energy and transmitted healing fluids through the screens, although Kashpirovsky himself never claimed this. He built his work as a high-class psychotherapist and helped people activate the internal reserves of their body. Then he was 50. Today the famous psychotherapist turned 77. In honor of this event, we decided to remind readers about this extraordinary person, about his phenomenon as a healer. About where Anatoly Mikhailovich is now and how he lives.
The Legend of Kashpirovsky
People have been making up legends and anecdotes about the famous psychotherapist Anatoly Kashpirovsky for many years, but all this motley folklore pales and fades against the background of the real facts from his enchanting biography. Consider the sensational speech at the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs back in 1982, when Anatoly Mikhailovich knocked out three dozen high-ranking diplomats.
History is silent about who was cured of what, but it is reliably known that as a result, none of them were allowed to work abroad: the authorities believed that these employees were amenable to hypnosis and could, just like that, give away important state secrets.
And remember the sensational teleconferences “Moscow - Kyiv” and “Kyiv - Tbilisi”, during which three surgical operations were performed remotely and without anesthesia (!)! Being hundreds of kilometers away from the patients, Kashpirovsky somehow miraculously provided them with complete anesthesia to such an extent that one of the ladies with a terrible 40-centimeter incision in the abdomen sang from joy and an excess of feelings right during the surgical operation.
I'm not even talking about the television sessions (Kashpirovsky, by the way, really doesn't like this word) shown in 1989 by All-Union Television. Let me remind you: they were watched by more than 300 million people in dozens of countries around the world. In the same 1989, having surpassed Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Sakharov, Gdlyan and Sobchak in popularity, Anatoly Mikhailovich was recognized in the USSR as “Person of the Year”, and later, in 1993, he was elected to the State Duma of Russia from the Liberal Democratic Party. Rumor has it that Zhirinovsky learned a lot from him...
They call him everything: a genius, a charlatan, even a modern Rasputin. Some (who, according to Kashpirovsky, have gone completely crazy) consider him a hypnotist who bewitched and destroyed the USSR. Everyone, in a word, judges him in his own way, but at the same time, as a rule, he is guided by the opinion imposed by the yellow press and the ill-wishers generated by it. And yet, even critics and skeptics do not deny: Kashpirovsky is endowed with an unusually bright, undeniable gift...
Dmitry GORDON
"Gordon Boulevard"
Curious veil biographies
Anatoly Kashpirovsky worked for 25 years in the psychiatric hospital named after academician A.I. Yushchenko in Vinnitsa. He is skeptical about the Hippocratic Oath. “Even in my 6th year of medical school, I did not agree with his phrase “The doctor, heal yourself.” No one, including a doctor, can heal himself when it comes to a somatic illness. Hippocrates was not my idol. Pavlov and our other domestic scientists are incomparably higher than him,” the psychotherapist said in an interview.
Claims that more than ten million people have been cured thanks to his sessions. “In every city where I perform, there are always my healed people. Wherever I go, from Moscow to Kamchatka, the first thing I do is call people from the audience who have recovered from their illnesses after my TV appearances. Never in 23 years has there been a case where there were not a couple of dozen such people in any hall,” says the healer. Kashpirovsky tours not only throughout Russia with his sessions. He has performed more than once in Israel, Germany, Canada, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria and the USA.
In 1990, Kashpirovsky, the only foreigner, was awarded the prestigious Wiktory Prize by Polish television. He received the award for the greatest popularity of the series of programs “Television Clinic of A. Kashpirovsky”. Polish President Lech Walesa expressed gratitude to him for the improvement of the Polish nation.
In 1991, Kashpirovsky met with boxer Mohammed Ali. “I have always longed to meet people whose personality, life and destiny, as well as the scope of their intellectual and physical differences, went beyond the generally accepted. Mohammed Ali was precisely an unusual and rare person with all the complexity of his unique personality, which aroused great interest,” writes Kashpirovsky on his official website.
Contrary to popular belief, Kashpirovsky never charged water. This was done by Allan Chumak, who called himself a psychic. Kashpirovsky had an extremely negative attitude towards Chumak. “I know where he came from. It was created by my director. We parted ways, and he put Chumak in the frame instead of me. But he couldn’t do anything, he just moved his hands, lied that he was charging water and objects. He stole my idea of television treatment and terribly caricatured it,” the psychotherapist said in an interview.
Kashpirovsky, by the way, is very offended when he is called a psychic. He basically doesn't believe in their existence. “None of the “psychics” are any psychics,” the psychotherapist writes on his official website. – We are all the same in terms of physiology and anatomy, but not the same. And in this regard, nature does not allow exceptions from the constants and standards in human physiology that it has developed and firmly fixed over millions of years!”
Anatoly Kashpirovsky took part in negotiations between federal forces and terrorists led by Shamil Basayev during the terrorist attack in Budennovsk in 1995. Russian politician Alexei Mitrofanov recalls in his blog: “He went inside the hospital and talked for a long time with the invaders. There will probably still be a great director who will make a film about this conversation. After all, this is the rarest case in history. Who could then guarantee the life and health of a world famous person?! What was the chance to influence militants who believe only in weapons and force?” After Kashpirovsky’s negotiations with Basayev, not a single shot was fired from the terrorists, and all the hostages remained alive.
There are many legends and tales about him. For example, they say that he was once invited to give a closed lecture for MGIMO employees. There were no healings. Kashpirovsky simply talked about his method and somehow casually mentioned that he treats, among other things, obesity. Hearing this, the ambassador's wives and ladies from the teaching staff made their way behind the stage after the lecture. Kashpirovsky looked carefully at the suffering women crowded around him and said: “I give instructions - you need to eat less.” The healer himself claims that this has never happened in his practice: “I don’t treat people like that. This is not my technique and certainly not science.”
Anatoly Kashpirovsky's daughter Elena is a three-time American champion in karate-do.
There was a program on television with an analytical investigation into the activities of the psychotherapist Kashpirovsky. It turns out that he is a sincere person! It was politicians and the Church who were jealous of his enormous popularity, were afraid for their authority and threw mud at the doctor and banned his television activities.
A person who has concentrated all his will to do good to people cannot but be sincere. And people were actually cured! Even doctors with academic degrees put sore spots on their bodies and placed jars of water against the TV screen. Faith really has a very strong healing effect on the human body! This is a state of mind in the limbic system of the brain that activates the activity of the hypothalamus and pituitary gland, as a result of which the blood is saturated with healing hormones, and the body begins to fight for life.
They claim that Kashpirovsky was a fraudster. Well, but now the Church, with its antediluvian knowledge, gives people a dubious faith and collects money from them thousands of times more than Kashpirovsky, who has a higher medical education and extensive experience working in a psychiatric hospital.
Where is Kashpirovsky now?
According to media reports, the famous psychotherapist lives in the United States, occasionally visiting Ukraine, where he has an apartment, and Russia. Anatoly Mikhailovich does not conduct group sessions, he is engaged in private practice. He last appeared on Russian television in 2009, in a series of programs broadcast on the NTV channel. It has an official website, where press releases and speeches by the gurus of domestic hypnosis are presented, and there is also an archive with reports of cures. In our opinion, a fairly objective and fairly complete answer to this question is given by an interview with Anatoly Mikhailovich, published two years ago on the occasion of his 75th birthday.
Vladimir VORSOBIN, Tatiana PRUDNIKOVA
Anatoly Kashpirovsky: When I was a new Russian, Berezovsky still rode the tram as a hare
Kashpirovsky in the late 80s. Now mass hypnosis sessions are prohibited in Russia, and Anatoly Mikhailovich calls his performances “creative meetings.” Photo: RIA Novosti
— Anatoly Mikhailovich, are you in Russia again?
- But I didn’t emigrate, I come and go. Now in Russia, now in Ukraine, now in America. During the Soviet years, I was the first new Russian. There was information that they wanted to kidnap my son for ransom. We had to take our son first to Italy, then to Poland, then to America, where he himself wanted. The daughter and his wife lived in Kyiv. But then my daughter wanted to join her brother in America and went there too. And in vain! Life has scattered us: my daughter ended up in Canada, my son stayed in the States... Now I regret that my family is not together...
— Is an anniversary a sad date?
“It’s sad when you look at yourself in the mirror and see a freak there.” Or when you're in a hospital bed. And I don’t see much difference between myself now and who I was at 30 years old.
— What are you doing now?
— I’m about to fly away (to Irkutsk — Ed.). I wish myself to fly and return. Although, when you board the plane, the passengers: “Oh, Kashpirovsky! So we'll be fine." As if I could influence takeoff and landing! Although I often took risks in my life. For example, I never drank. But one day I wanted to show myself to a girl. We had a circle of young people, and everyone started: they say, oh, he can’t drink. I got excited. I say: okay, look. He took the bottle of liquor and, without lifting it, drained it in one fell swoop. Everyone was dumbfounded. How I didn’t die, I don’t know. I started hallucinating: the Chinese were coming at me in millions... Delirium tremens! This lasted for several days, but the body prevailed.
— They say that you have a lot of real estate in many Russian cities?
- No. Personally, I have an apartment in Moscow, period. At the time when I became famous, people lived modestly; my salary was 115 rubles a month. And as soon as they showed it on TV, it became incredibly popular. It just started raining money! There wasn’t a penny, but here was an altyn with six or more zeros. I think at the time when I was a new Russian, Berezovsky rode like a hare on the tram.
My car was a Nissan Patrol, a beast of a car, for 28 thousand rubles - this was in those years. They brought her on a special flight to me in Kyiv. There was nothing like this anywhere in Ukraine. Wherever you come to a gas station: “Oh, what are you talking about, we’ll fill you up for free.” In 1990, on January 27, I arrived from Mariupol to Donetsk to go by train to Kyiv. And I was late. My assistant ran to the station master, who said they would stop the train. The train was waiting for me for an hour, the schedule was disrupted. It was an emergency. The station manager was fired from his job. I told the Prime Minister of Ukraine about this, the railway worker was reinstated, but he received a nickname - Kashpirovsky.
— Were the passengers indignant that they were waiting for you?
- Oh, I'm coming to this train. People run out of the carriages, hug, kiss, “eat this”, “take this as a gift”. Always received well. I remember one manager came and called me to Tashkent. I refused once, twice. He fell to his knees, crying. Then it turned out that he had been given a Volga as a gift for my trip in advance. They greeted me there with pomp. Halls of seven thousand people are sold out. Collected about 650 thousand rubles. I didn't know what to do with them. He gave Mikheil Mamiashvili, a wrestler, 150 thousand to create a fund for athletes. I bought a five-room apartment in Tashkent, which I presented to a woman from the crowd at the next sessions. He asked: “Who is the most unfortunate here?” A woman with many children answered, her husband left her. Well, I gave it to her. I did this more than once later. I bought an apartment to give it as a gift at the session...
— You were later in the waste recycling business, weren’t you?
— They wrote: “Kashpirovsky is the king of garbage.” What kind of king?! They just introduced me to people in Chicago: they say, there is good technology, find partners in Russia, and we can build a waste incineration plant here - 50 million dollars were given for this. But no one could be persuaded! And then the owner of the technology died. Others came, for some reason opposed to Russia. In general, the idea was complete.
— You look great in the pictures.
- Well, not so great! I have a lot of sports injuries, which lets me know. I don’t do serious sports anymore, but yes, I do physical education. Without this, it’s just death. The three Cs haunt people - old age, suffering, death. Now people live by their weaknesses - entertainment, vices, etc. And they die from what they don’t have to die from - from the heart, hypertension...
- How long would you like to live?
- So that it is the statistical average for all people. Let's say I live to be 200 years old. There can be no more terrible loneliness. Your children, grandchildren are already dying, and a new terrible life in which there are only memories. But if I live for 200 years, but everyone lives that long, even my enemies, even journalists who write badly about me... But without them it’s boring and uninteresting.
DICTAPHONE FROM KASHPIROVSKY. From a journalist's notebook
I was personally convinced that Anatoly Mikhailovich did not favor journalists. Today it is difficult to imagine a journalist without a voice recorder or a camera. These items have become firmly established in our everyday life and have become our integral attribute. And not so long ago, in the late 80s, and even in the early 90s, they were the greatest rarity among the writing fraternity, especially at the regional and district levels.
True, this also had its advantage. Armed only with a notepad and a pen, newspaper men were simply forced to work more carefully on the material, which, of course, had a positive effect on its quality. But that’s not what we’re talking about now. It is certainly more convenient and easier to work with a voice recorder. And, of course, all creative workers of that time dreamed of having them. Among the dreamers then was me, an employee of the Zaporozhye regional newspaper.
And then one day, it seemed to me, I had a real hope of becoming the owner of such a thing. The famous psychotherapist Anatoly Kashpirovsky came to Zaporozhye. I have heard more than once from colleagues that he is involved in charity work, in particular, he allegedly gives voice recorders to journalists. Well, naturally, I couldn’t miss such an opportunity, I immediately went to the Youth Sports Palace, where his lecture sessions took place.
There they immediately warned me that it was almost impossible for journalists to get through to him, because there were always people around him. I decided to act through the director of the Yunost Palace (I don’t remember his last name). I come, introduce myself, and ask for assistance in organizing such a meeting.
I can’t help you,” says the director. – Anatoly Mikhailovich is categorically against meetings with journalists. I personally heard him talk about it. But I can give advice. His press secretary is our fellow countrywoman, a Zaporozhye, a very good woman. Talk to her, maybe she will arrange such a meeting for you.
The director suggested where Kashpirovsky and his retinue should come from and where. And I began to wait. A radio journalist from Gulyai-Polye joined me; we didn’t even meet him. He, like me, hoped to interview Anatoly Mikhailovich. For this reason, he came 100 kilometers from Gulyai-Polye. The psychotherapist appeared about five minutes before the start of the performance. The conversation with his press secretary took place on the fly. She immediately whispered something with Kashpirovsky and, turning to us, said: “After the speech, come up, now Anatoly Mikhailovich cannot talk to you.”
My unfamiliar colleague and I felt like we were on the way to our goal. The session lasted three hours, but the time flew by unnoticed, because Kashpirovsky, as always, managed to captivate the audience with his eloquence and talent as a psychologist. In the hall of many thousands you could hear a fly fly by. Even before the end of the session, we took a place at the door of the office, where, as the director of Yunost told us in confidence, Anatoly Mikhailovich was supposed to come after the speech.
Finally, together with his entourage, Kashpirovsky entered this office. After waiting two or three minutes, we knock on the door. Let's open it and come in. Anatoly Mikhailovich looks at us with a dissatisfied expression. The press secretary explains to him who we are.
Five minutes for your questions, no more. I have made a vow not to communicate with journalists at all, because they distort the facts, throw mud at me, and generally portray me as some kind of monster. Where are your voice recorders? Without them, I won’t talk to you at all, because then you’ll definitely say the devil knows what about me.
Frankly, at that moment I was overcome by real despair. I thought, damn it, I was next to Kashpirovsky and would return to the editorial office with nothing. But then my gaze fell on the heavy suitcase that my Gulyai-Polye colleague had brought with him. By all accounts it was a tape recorder.
Anatoly Mikhailovich, - I say, - we don’t have voice recorders, unfortunately, but we have a tape recorder. We took it specifically to record the conversation with you.
I don’t remember in detail the content of our conversation; my questions were probably primitive, routine. But one of them still caught Kashpirovsky. I remember this question. I told Anatoly Mikhailovich that the media talk a lot about his charity and even call him a millionaire. This is what hooked him. And he talked to us for more than half an hour instead of five minutes. He spoke and we listened.
Yes,” he said, “many people believe that I have already accumulated millions.” But believe me, when I divorced my first wife, I only had one ruble left in my pocket.
This question of mine was asked to Kashpirovsky not without intention. This was a kind of hint that we would not mind receiving voice recorders from him as a gift. Anatoly Mikhailovich apparently understood the hint, because at the end of the conversation he said: “I would definitely give you voice recorders, but I have only one with me. And I can’t do sessions without him, because I have to write down questions from listeners.”
This is how my attempt to get a voice recorder from Kashpirovsky ended. This was somewhere in the mid-90s.
Nikolay Zubashenko
Anatoly Kashpirovsky divorced his wife after 22 years of marriage
Psychotherapist Anatoly Kashpirovsky became famous in 1989 thanks to the television programs Health Sessions of psychotherapist Anatoly Kashpirovsky, which were broadcast on central television.
The famous “Soviet magician” always tried to keep his personal life secret from the press, so the news of the second divorce raised many questions. The first application for divorce dates back to 2011. The final divorce from his wife Irina took place in 2014, mk.ru reports.
When asked why the couple broke up after 22 years of marriage, Kashpirovsky replied: People get divorced for various reasons... And if this happened, then you only have yourself to blame... Marriage for me is a sacred topic. I prefer to keep my personal life secret and not show it off. Both my wives are super beautiful! I got married for the second time in 1992. It turns out that I lived with my wife Irina for 22 years! And this is a wonderful number! I've always been very respectful of women. I “hold an umbrella” over them - I will always protect and protect them...”
Kashpirovsky returned to Russia. Program “You Won’t Believe It!” I found out what the sorcerer from the 90s spent all his millions on.
He gave instructions to the whole country. But I didn’t help myself. At the age of 75, Anatoly Kashpirovsky was left without a wife and without a penny in his pocket.
The famous sorcerer from the 90s came to Russia again. He has a traditional concert in the city of Orsk. The program includes turning people into logs, a conspiracy against obesity with the power of thought, and a counting rhyme, after which the locals’ “alarm clocks” immediately go off.
Kashpirovsky does not hide: in the 90s he earned millions - and not in rubles, but in foreign currency. And he spent it without thinking, and not only on himself. But now there is no trace left of this sweet and carefree life.
Anatoly Kashpirovsky pays for flights, restaurants and hotel rooms himself. And the fees are barely enough to pay the team. Rumor has it that it was because of lack of money that Kashpirovsky’s wife left him. For a psychic and hypnotist, whom many in show business consider an ordinary charlatan, the departure of his wife is a sore subject.
But Kashpirovsky also gave himself an instruction - not to lose heart. Happy birthday to you, Anatoly Mikhailovich! I wish you health and new creative successes in your healing work!
Based on Internet materials, prepared by Nikolay Zubashenko
Anatoly Kashpirovsky was born in 1939. The exact place of his birth is unknown. According to information on the official website, this is the Ukrainian village of Medzhybizh, but there is an opinion that the famous psychic was born in Stavnitsa or Proskurov (now Khmelnitsky). Anatoly grew up modest and hard-working, choosing a medical field for himself after school. After graduating from the Vinnitsa Medical Institute in 1962, he began working in a local psychiatric hospital, and his medical career here lasted almost 25 years.
Gradually, Kashpirovsky began to practice unconventional methods of treating patients for various ailments. It is still unknown how he discovered unusual abilities in himself and whether he really had them. Either way, people were thrilled that they were actually improving their health. In 1989, Anatoly was invited to perform on All-Union television. Live he demonstrated the technique of pain relief at a distance during surgical operations.
For Soviet society, extrasensory perception, and even on television, became a truly breakthrough event. Kashpirovsky has thousands of fans demanding that he appear on television as often as possible. Several more healing sessions followed, which were watched by more than 300 million Soviet people. After this, Anatoly began to be invited to foreign television. In addition, he took part in many scientific conferences and even presented a report before the United Nations.
Anatoly Kashpirovsky led an active political life and joined the Liberal Democratic Party, becoming a deputy of the State Duma. According to rumors, it was his influence that affected the successful career of the permanent leader of the party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky. In addition, the mysterious psychic has published many scientific books. The basis of his unique methods was strong suggestion, in fact, hypnosis of people, setting them up for self-healing. In the 90s, he also appeared on TV, but only as a guest on various programs, after which he emigrated to the USA.
Personal life
According to reports, Anatoly Kashpirovsky was married to a woman named Valentina, with whom he has two children, Elena and Sergei, who now live in the United States. The psychic married for the second time in 1992 to his new beloved Irina. They lived together until 2005, and the official divorce took place only in 2014.
Anatoly Kashpirovsky now lives in Brighton, America and has “stars and stripes” citizenship. He still practices his amazing methods of healing people, holding meetings with a fairly wide audience. In Russia, opinions about the parapsychologist are divided: today most people consider him an ordinary charlatan, while others are sure that Kashpirovsky is simply an experienced hypnotist and psychologist, capable of delving into the very depths of human consciousness.
1989 October 9. The first therapeutic television show of Anatoly Kashpirovsky on Central Television, which brought together millions of Soviet viewers in front of blue screens.
Waiting for a miracle
Almost the entire population of the country (from young to old, from boss to housewife) intended to be cured of various illnesses, everyone was waiting for a miracle, and it happened. Even if not with everyone, most of the television audience felt some kind of magical influence, something unusual in everyday life, which crossed from television screens into the houses and apartments of ordinary citizens. Some people's warts and post-operative scars disappeared, while others inexplicably got rid of old diseases. And heated discussions of this and five subsequent television sessions, vivid examples of “healed” people led to the massive faith of a huge audience in the Kashpirovsky phenomenon, which painlessly relieved enuresis, ulcers, alcoholism and other ailments. The country was divided into two camps: some believed him, others tried to catch him cheating. But as soon as the show began, both of them sat down in front of the TV.
Kashpirovsky: biography
Photos of Kashpirovsky were easily distributed throughout the country, they were in almost every family, because almost everyone wanted to experience the healing effects of something so unusual and captivating. So who is he - Anatoly Kashpirovsky, who made the whole country talk about himself in an instant?
Kashpirovsky's biography is quite ordinary and is not much different from the life of the average Soviet citizen. Born in 1939, August 11; He spent his childhood in the Ukrainian town of Proskurov (now Khmelnitsky). It can be assumed that at an early age Anatoly might have been interested not in cars, but in the actions and intentions of the people around him. After graduating from Vinnitsky in 1962, he worked for a quarter of a century in a psychiatric hospital as a psychotherapist, and in 1987 - as a psychotherapist for the USSR athletics team. Kashpirovsky’s biography boasts the title of Candidate of Medical Sciences, as well as Master of Sports of the USSR in weightlifting. All his life, Anatoly Mikhailovich loved to sing, so it is not surprising that his trained ligaments became an indispensable tool when conducting television shows and public speaking in front of huge audiences.
Teleconference on psychological anesthesia at a distance
In addition to television broadcasts, Anatoly Kashpirovsky, whose biography is rich in various significant events and memorable meetings that are not given to every person, held two teleconferences on Central Television, performing live anesthesia for two patients before surgery without the use of anesthesia. The patients of that memorable broadcast were Lesya Yurshova and Olga Ignatova, for whom medical anesthesia was contraindicated due to a high allergic predisposition to all drugs. They underwent surgery to remove a hernia. To this day, not a single hypnotist has been able to repeat this trick.
Meetings with audiences: growing appreciation and popularity
There were also meetings with spectators (the so-called healing sessions), at which Kashpirovsky showed letters from grateful, cured people. At such meetings, various “healing” paraphernalia were sold (photos of Kashpirovsky, videotapes with recordings of his sessions, etc.), which subsequently aroused great interest from the prosecutor’s office, because the goods sold were not labeled.
America in the life of Kashpirovsky
In 1995, Anatoly Kashpirovsky, whose biography took a new turn in life’s spiral, moved to the United States. There he relieved Russian emigrants of excess weight; the cost of the session was $50. There he was awarded the US Commemorative Medal “For the Improvement of Veterans of the Second World War.” Before living in America, he traveled almost half the world conducting his wellness sessions. He practiced in Poland for almost 20 years, and it was he, the only foreign citizen, who was awarded a significant prize by Polish television for the enormous popularity of the series of television programs “Television Clinic of A. Kashpirovsky,” and Lech Walesa, the President of Poland, expressed gratitude for the improvement of the nation.
Kashpirovsky against the clergy and official medicine
The biography of Anatoly Mikhailovich Kashpirovsky includes constant conflicts with official medicine, which recognized him as a charlatan, and the sessions he conducted were harmful to the psyche. The clergy categorically did not recognize Kashpirovsky, believing that only the Lord God could give healing. Kashpirovsky’s biography has such an interesting fact as beating his opponent during the filming of the TV show “Let Them Talk” (broadcast on December 14, 2005), which Mikhailovich did not agree with.
In 2006, in Chelyabinsk he was charged with illegal practice of traditional medicine. Moreover, it was compiled by an independent expert - psychotherapist Shadrina, who was not present at any of Anatoly Mikhailovich’s speeches. In this opus, Kashpirovsky was placed on a par with the charlatans of the 90s who called themselves healers. However, the man who saved thousands of lives, and who was repeatedly threatened with going to jail, continued to treat people.
In 2009, the biography of Kashpirovsky, who had a long creative break, continued with the series of investigative documentaries “Session with Kashpirovsky.”
The series “The Miracle Worker” about Kashpirovsky?
In November 2014, the premiere of the dramatic series “The Miracle Worker” took place, dedicated to the theme of psychics and mystics. Fyodor Bondarchuk, who played one of the main roles, played Kashpirovsky very similarly, although he himself claims that he did not play him. Even Kashpirovsky himself, whose biography is clearly visible in this series, noticed the resemblance to himself and was very upset by this, because he considered the series a failure. And Bondarchuk, in his opinion, failed to cope with the role. Anatoly Mikhailovich was especially offended that in the film he was compared to Alan Chumak, whom he never recognized as a doctor.
What is Kashpirovsky’s secret?
The “Kashpirovization” of an entire country at that time could only be compared in its emotionality to the film “Slave Isaura.” How can we explain the effects that occurred during television sessions? Was it a powerful healing field or some kind of strong energy that could penetrate the homes of grateful viewers through the blue TV screens? Although, even if we assume that such energy took place, it would definitely not be enough to charge the entire population of a vast territory. And Kashpirovsky himself never voiced during the sessions that he was transmitting some kind of energy or fluids through the screens; he always carried out his work professionally, like a psychotherapist of the highest class. Although some time later, Kashpirovsky’s popularity was interpreted as a manifestation of mass psychosis.
Super popular hypnotist
So who is he - Kashpirovsky? The biography and family of this man - the ruler of other people's souls and consciousnesses - are of constant interest to many people, because they want to understand what mechanisms of influence he used that allowed him to achieve very impressive results and caused fierce debate and confrontation of opinions.
In 1989, in the Soviet Union, Kashpirovsky was recognized as the person of the year, surpassing famous politicians in popularity. The secret services were afraid of him, because today the psychotherapist was talking about warts, and tomorrow he could send a crowd of people to the Kremlin.
Kashpirovsky's methods were aimed at activating a person's internal reserves, especially if the latter was easily suggestible and emotional. Most of the “healings” come from such viewers. During the television shows, fairly high numbers of cures for various diseases were announced, the percentage of which in relation to the total number of viewers was small.
What contributed to the success of Kashpirovsky’s television shows?
Kashpirovsky's voice: confident, persistent, powerful
Anatoly Kashpirovsky, whose biography and family are of constant interest to a large mass of the population, behaved very confidently and confidently in front of television cameras, while maintaining all the required accessories of a professional hypnotist: the appropriate look, gestures, posture, intonation and And since most of the population knew practically nothing about the work of psychotherapists, this certainly led to an increase in the expected effect, being perceived as a “magical” action. Also, the perception of the audience was indirectly influenced by the uncharacteristic behavior of some people present at the session (waving their arms, turning their heads, slowly, as if dancing, moving around the hall). Such unusual actions of the easily suggestible audience, due to their boundless faith in Kashpirovsky’s capabilities, caused a corresponding reaction among those present, infecting them with similar feelings.
The method of influencing the audience chosen by Kashpirovsky, which in psychotherapy is called the Kretschmer-Erickson method, played an important role in the psychotherapist’s practice. Its technology consists in the absence of direct pressure on those participating in the hypnotic session.
Kashpirovsky knits a web of words, periodically inserting a phrase, the content of which carries a direct suggestion, which acts with particular force against the background of indifferent stimuli, because the listeners get the impression of participating in the process together with the psychotherapist.
Kashpirovsky: biography, personal life
Anatoly Mikhailovich was married to his fan Valentina, with whom he lived for 22 years, having two children: a son and a daughter. In terms of plan, Kashpirovsky’s biography is quite successful. His children and grandchildren are his pride. Son Sergei is a boxer, daughter Elena is a three-time American champion in karate-do, granddaughter Inga is a two-time champion in the same sport.
In recent years, his personal assistant Irina, a citizen of the Czech Republic, has been with the psychotherapist, who is his chosen one and personal companion.
Kashpirovsky's biography positions this unique person as a citizen of the world, an absolute ascetic who cares little about material wealth. He, like every loving parent, dreams only of the happiness of his own children and grandchildren. Today, Kashpirovsky continues to conduct sessions in Russia, America, Kazakhstan, and Germany, collecting full houses.
Kashpirovsky became the founder of the mass appearance of sorcerers, magicians, and psychics who considered themselves entitled to treat people whose basic illiteracy is reflected in the destructive habit of creating their own idol.
Many still remember Kashpirovsky’s therapeutic television sessions. Millions of people gathered in front of blue screens to get rid of warts, ulcers, alcoholism and many other diseases forever. Broadcasts of the sessions were watched by everyone - from housewives to ministers. Among the spectators there were many who were truly helped by these sessions. People believed that the doctor charged them with positive energy and transmitted healing fluids through the screens, although Kashpirovsky himself never claimed this. He built his work as a high-class psychotherapist and helped people activate the internal reserves of their body.
1. Anatoly Kashpirovsky worked for 25 years in the psychiatric hospital named after academician A.I. Yushchenko in Vinnitsa.
2. Anatoly Mikhailovich is skeptical about the Hippocratic oath.“Even in my 6th year of medical school, I did not agree with his phrase “The doctor, heal yourself.” No one, including a doctor, can heal himself when it comes to a somatic illness. Hippocrates was not my idol. Pavlov and our other domestic scientists are incomparably higher than him,” the psychotherapist said in an interview.
3. Anatoly Kashpirovsky claims that more than ten million people were cured thanks to his sessions.“In every city where I perform, there are always my healed people. Wherever I go, from Moscow to Kamchatka, the first thing I do is call people from the audience who have recovered from their illnesses after my TV appearances. Never in 23 years has there been a case where there were not a couple of dozen such people in any hall,” says the healer. Kashpirovsky tours not only throughout Russia with his sessions. He has performed more than once in Israel, Germany, Canada, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria and the USA.
4. In 1990, Kashpirovsky, the only foreigner, was awarded the prestigious Wiktory Prize by Polish television. He received the award for the greatest popularity of the series of programs “Television Clinic of A. Kashpirovsky”. Polish President Lech Walesa expressed gratitude to him for the improvement of the Polish nation.
5. In 1991, Kashpirovsky met with boxer Mohammed Ali.“I have always longed to meet people whose personality, life and destiny, as well as the scope of their intellectual and physical differences, went beyond the generally accepted. Mohammed Ali was precisely an unusual and rare person with all the complexity of his unique personality, which aroused great interest,” writes Kashpirovsky on his official website.
6. Contrary to popular belief, Kashpirovsky never charged water. This was done by Allan Chumak, who called himself. Kashpirovsky had an extremely negative attitude towards Chumak. “I know where he came from. It was created by my director. We parted ways, and he put Chumak in the frame instead of me. But he couldn’t do anything, he just moved his hands, lied that he was charging water and objects. He stole my idea of television treatment and terribly caricatured it,” the psychotherapist said in an interview.
7. Kashpirovsky, by the way, is very offended when he is called a psychic. He basically doesn't believe in their existence. “None of the “psychics” are any psychics,” the psychotherapist writes on his official website. – We are all the same in terms of physiology and anatomy, but not the same. And in this regard, nature does not allow exceptions from the constants and standards in human physiology that it has developed and firmly fixed over millions of years!”
Anatoly Kashpirovsky during a psychotherapy session Photo: russianlook.com
8. Anatoly Kashpirovsky took part in negotiations between federal forces and terrorists led by Shamil Basayev during the terrorist attack in Budennovsk in 1995. Russian politician Alexei Mitrofanov recalls in his blog: “He went inside the hospital and talked for a long time with the invaders. There will probably still be a great director who will make a film about this conversation. After all, this is the rarest case in history. Who could then guarantee the life and health of a world famous person?! What was the chance to influence militants who believe only in weapons and force?” After Kashpirovsky’s negotiations with Basayev, not a single shot was fired from the terrorists, and all the hostages remained alive.
9. There are many legends and tales about Kashpirovsky. For example, they say that he was once invited to give a closed lecture for MGIMO employees. There were no healings. Kashpirovsky simply talked about his method and somehow casually mentioned that he treats, among other things, obesity. Hearing this, the ambassador's wives and ladies from the teaching staff made their way behind the stage after the lecture. Kashpirovsky looked carefully at the suffering women crowded around him and said: “I give instructions - you need to eat less.” The healer himself claims that this has never happened in his practice: “I don’t treat people like that. This is not my technique and certainly not science.”
10. Anatoly Kashpirovsky’s daughter Elena is a three-time American champion in karate-do.
Anatoly Mikhailovich Kashpirovsky. Born on August 11, 1939 in the village of Stavnitsa, Medzhibozh district, Kamenets-Podolsk region, Ukrainian SSR (now Letichevsky district, Khmelnitsky region, Ukraine). Soviet and Russian psychotherapist, healer.
Anatoly Kashpirovsky was born on August 11, 1939 in the village of Stavnitsa, Medzhibozh district, Kamenets-Podolsk region, Ukrainian SSR (now Letichevsky district, Khmelnytsky region, Ukraine) into a military family.
Father - Mikhail Kashpirovsky, a participant in the Great Patriotic War.
Mother - Yadviga Nikolaevna.
Has two sisters and a brother.
During the war, the family was evacuated in the Kazakh SSR, in a village on the Chu River.
According to the recollections of former classmates, during his school years he spent a lot of time in the gym and respected strength. He had no close friends and kept to himself. By high school, he had developed a special voice timbre that made a strong impression on those around him.
In his youth he was involved in weightlifting, master of sports of the USSR.
I read a lot and was interested in psychology. He himself said: “I love Tolstoy, Stefan Zweig, Bunin, Kuprin, Jack London, Flaubert, Sholokhov... Any psychiatrist, psychotherapist, psychologist, lecturer must re-read, first of all, Stefan Zweig.” I diligently prepared to enter a medical university, for which there was a lot of competition for places in Soviet times.
In 1962 he graduated from the Vinnitsa Medical Institute, receiving a degree in psychiatry. Then he worked for 25 years in a psychiatric hospital named after Academician A.I. Yushchenko in Vinnitsa.
In 1962-1963, he was a doctor of exercise therapy at the Railway Hospital in Vinnitsa.
In 1987, he became a psychotherapist for the USSR weightlifting team.
In 1988-1989 - head of the Republican Center for Psychotherapy in Kyiv.
From 1989 to 1993 - head of the International Center for Psychotherapy in Kyiv.
People first started talking about it in 1988 after two large teleconferences were held Kyiv-Moscow and Moscow-Kyiv. The main purpose of such an experiment was to confirm the possibility that even in the absence of verbal contact it is possible to psychologically influence the patient.
Eyewitnesses claimed that during the broadcast of the Moscow-Kyiv teleconference on March 31, 1988, pain relief was performed at a remote level during a serious surgical intervention. The patient was Lyubov Grabovskaya, who was scheduled to undergo breast surgery. The experiment was carried out with the help of academician oncologist N.M. Bondar and doctor I. Korolev, who at that time was already widely known in medical circles.
After this, programs with Kashpirovsky began to appear on Ukrainian television. In particular, he treated children for enuresis.
On March 2, 1989, a Kyiv-Tbilisi teleconference took place. It caused an even greater resonance among ordinary people. During this teleconference, using his method, Anatoly remotely anesthetized two operations simultaneously. The experiment took place under the guidance of academician G. D. Ioseliani, surgeons Z. Megrelishvili and G. Bochaidze.
On July 27, 1989, the first meeting with A. M. Kashpirovsky took place in the Ostankino concert studio. Further, in 1989, Central Television broadcast six programs “Health sessions of psychotherapist Anatoly Kashpirovsky,” during which he allegedly carried out an unprecedented cure for a wide variety of diseases - about 10 million people in just 6 hours of television broadcast.
The first television program was aired on October 8, 1989 on the First Program. Then it came out every Sunday, once every two weeks.
Anatoly Kashpirovsky's first show on TV. 1989
Throughout 1990, Kashpirovsky's programs were regularly broadcast in Vietnam.
In the same 1990, he, the only foreigner, was awarded the prestigious Wiktory Prize by Polish television for the greatest popularity of the series of programs “Television Clinic of A. Kashpirovsky.”
In 1991, he spoke at the UN headquarters, where he proposed using his methods to combat the effects of radiation exposure, scars and AIDS.
In 1993, the monograph “Nonspecific Group Psychotherapy”, a scientific collection based on the materials of the above-mentioned conference “Psychotherapeutic Phenomenon”, and the author’s books “Awakening”, “Thoughts on the way to you”, “Believe in yourself” were published.
“I am not a hypnotist or a psychic. I'm a psychotherapist. And I don’t know how I can do it all. I say sleep - and people fall asleep. I throw them on the floor - they fall like they were knocked down: they see everything, they hear everything, they understand everything, but they feel absolutely no pain.”, - said Anatoly Mikhailovich himself.
According to Kashpirovsky, the subject of its psychological impact are physical (not mental) disorders of the human body: “It’s impossible to heal a sick brain; I don’t treat a sick brain.”.
Kashpirovsky, using a set of psychotherapeutic techniques, allegedly “turns on” a self-regulation system in a person, which ensures the production of the necessary drugs in the body to cope with pain, as well as with a particular disease.
“Our body is a pharmacy, the entire periodic table”, he said. Thus, according to Kashpirovsky, morphine, insulin and other drugs that we, if necessary, introduce into the body, are constantly contained in microdoses in a person, their lack leads to diseases, and the normalization of life processes is achieved by creating programming situations from the outside.
The USSR Academy of Sciences tried to investigate the results of Kashpirovsky’s activities. An increase in the number of mental disorders is associated with scandalous television programs. Some doctors wrote in hospital records: “The diagnosis is Kashpirovsky syndrome.”
In 1993, he was elected to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the 1st convocation from the LDPR in the 189th Yaroslavl electoral district.
On January 13, 1994, a party faction was formed in the State Duma, but Kashpirovsky, for technical reasons, did not get into it, since he was in the USA and could not submit a statement. On March 5, he announced his resignation from the faction (via fax from America), accusing him of racism and war propaganda. However, upon returning to Russia in April 1994, Kashpirovsky remained in the faction. He finally left it on July 1, 1995.
He took part in negotiations between federal forces and terrorists led by Shamil Basayev during the terrorist attack in Budyonnovsk in 1995. The former interdistrict prosecutor of Budennovsk, Sergei Gamayunov, wrote in his book “Budennovsk: Ten Years Later”: “Kashpirovsky was the one who promised to first put them all to sleep and hypnotize them, and in the end, when he saw all this blood, he saw these hostages who 20-30 people were in the ward, exhausted, scared, he felt bad there, and they literally carried him out of there in their arms.”
At the same time, ex-deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Alexei Mitrofanov argued that Kashpirovsky managed to save many. Allegedly, thanks to Kashpirovsky’s diplomatic actions, some of the hostages were removed. Shamil Basayev allegedly testified to this. Alexey Mitrofanov said: “But there was one who had a many-hour conversation with Basayev. It was Kashpirovsky. He went inside the hospital and talked for a long time with the invaders. There will probably still be a great director who will make a film about this conversation. After all, this is the rarest case in history. Who could then guarantee the life and health of a world famous person?! What was the chance to influence the militants who believe only in weapons and force?
In November 2006, Anatoly Kashpirovsky had a conflict with the Chelyabinsk police. There he held his meetings. But after the Rospotrebnadzor department discovered the absence of markings on packages with “charged salt,” one of Kashpirovsky’s speeches was interrupted by police officers demanding its termination due to its illegality. In response, Kashpirovsky warned that an unfounded accusation and offensive interference by amateurs in his case could cause various destructive changes in the body of the police officers and prosecutors themselves.
Police officers seized 160 bags of salt from a private entrepreneur collaborating with Kashpirovsky on the grounds that the bags were not marked. According to a statement from one of the representatives of the initiative group of anti-globalists, law enforcement agencies of Chelyabinsk brought Kashpirovsky to administrative responsibility for illegal practice of healing, however, based on similar six materials, after a pre-investigation check by the inquiry department of the Central District Department of Internal Affairs of Chelyabinsk, a decision was made to refuse to initiate an administrative offense case due to lack of corpus delicti. Rejected materials are stored in the analytical department of the Central District Department of Internal Affairs. The “Specialist’s Conclusion” presented to the prosecutor by I. Shadrina is not the conclusion of an examination, which, in accordance with the current legislation, should have been carried out by a special expert commission. The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia lodged a protest against the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, declaring the decision of the Chelyabinsk court illegal.
In the 2000s he moved to the USA. There he conducts his sessions, introducing himself as a “psychological treatment specialist.”
In 2017, Kashpirovsky announced his know-how: in New York he carried out, as he claimed, “an unprecedented worldwide remote psychological action.”
Kashpirovsky said: “On June 29, 2017, at exactly 19.30 New York time in New York, in the hall of the National restaurant, I carried out an unprecedented psychological action - worldwide remote nose correction with the restoration of normal nasal breathing and getting rid of snoring. The fantasticness of this unusual The action consists not only of instantly (in three minutes) fixing the noses of thousands of people, but also in the absolute absence of any visual, audio and video contacts with me as the source of this programming.
Anatoly Kashpirovsky. Alone with everyone
Height of Anatoly Kashpirovsky: 172 centimeters.
Personal life of Anatoly Kashpirovsky:
First wife - Valentina. The marriage produced a son and daughter. They divorced at the peak of Kashpirovsky’s popularity.
Two grandchildren. Granddaughter Inga is a 3-time US champion in karate-do.
The second wife is Irina, originally from the Czech Republic. We got married on December 24, 1992. For some time the couple lived in the Czech Republic. A number of media outlets wrote that Irina was 20 years old at the time of her marriage, but Kashpirovsky himself claimed that she was 35 years old.
He actually separated from his wife Irina in 2006. “Since 2006, my wife and I saw each other only a few times: these were short meetings in Israel, Germany, Poland, even in Prague we managed to meet at the airport for two hours. Wherever I went, I was always alone. But Irina and I We constantly communicated on the Internet via Skype, I always knew where she was and all these years I generously provided her with financial assistance,” he said in 2014.
In 2014, the couple filed for divorce officially.
Kashpirovsky, commenting on the divorce, said: “People get divorced for various reasons... And if this happens, then you only have yourself to blame... Marriage for me is a sacred topic. I prefer to keep my personal life secret and not show it off.” . Both of my wives are super beauties! I got married for the second time in 1992. It turns out that I lived with my wife Irina for 22 years! And this is a wonderful figure! I have always been very respectful of women. I “hold an umbrella” over them - always I will protect and protect them."
There were rumors that the psychotherapist filed for divorce in order to marry his young assistant. He refused to comment on this: “My further personal life will remain closed to all curious people. And no one cares how it turns out - whether there will be a divorce or not, whether I will start a new family or not. If I have to, I will have a wedding somewhere in the Philippines "so that none of the paparazzi could get there. I'll tell you this: over the last 200 years there has not been a better husband on the globe than me."
Plays sports and maintains good physical shape.
Bibliography of Anatoly Kashpirovsky:
Group nonspecific psychotherapy
Theoretical foundations of nonspecific group psychotherapy
Psychotherapeutic phenomenon of Kashpirovsky
Problems of theory and practice of psychotherapy
I came to resurrect the living
I bring you closer to perfection
Thoughts on the way to you
Awakening
The miracle is within us
Religious Studies
Believe in yourself
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