VIRUS Band 13, pp. 145-159, 2020/07/23
Schwerpunkt: Alternative und komplementäre Heilmethoden in der Neuzeit
In the end of the 1980s and within a short period of time, Anatoly M. Kashpirovsky was transformed from an unknown doctor from the Ukraine into a Soviet “television star” and the “person of 1989”. The unsettled Soviet society needed “wonderful” experiences and celebrated Kashpirovsky, the “miracle healer”. The Kremlin and KGB used Kashpirovsky to distract the Soviet people from the internal problems of the USSR. With his controversial hypnosismethods of treatment, Kashpirovsky proved to be a sensation in the Soviet Union and abroad.This study analyses the rise of Kashpirovsky at the end of the turbulent Perestroika era, how he was perceived in the USSR, in the former Soviet Union after 1991 and also abroad, as well as his political and medical career in Russia in the 1990s.
Keywords: Kashpirovsky, Perestroika, Soviet Union, Ukraine, psychotherapy
