Psychic surgery is a procedure performed by self-styled psychic doctors or psychic surgeons, chiefly in the Philippines and in Brazil. Practitioners claim that it involves the extraction of "tumors" or other presumed pathological obects (pus, bones, etc.) from the patient's body through a bloody but painless and invisible "incision", often made with bare hands and without the use of antiseptics or anesthetics.
Scientists, traditional medical doctors and stage magicians generally dismiss such practices as mere sleight-of-hand tricks, where the psychic doctor simply produces concealed blood and parts that he had suitably hidden in advance. Notably, debunker and retired magician James Randi has shown an ability to mimic psychic surgery.
Psychic surgery should not be confused with psychosurgery.
External links
Psychic Surgery (http://www.bccancer.bc.ca/PPI/UnconventionalTherapies/PsychicSurgery.htm) by the British Columbia Cancer Agency
Psychic surgery is allegedly a paranormal surgical procedure.
Psychic surgery made U. tabloid headlines in March 1984 when comedian Andy Kaufman, diagnosed with lung cancer, traveled to the Philippines for a six-week course of psychic surgery.
Psychic surgery should not be confused with psychosurgery.
Psychic surgery is an energy enhancement of the body, quite different to the invasive incision of the medical scalpel.
During the psychic experience, the ailing subject usually lies on a table and submits their physical body to be healed by the surgeon.
For example, if the patient comes to the psychicsurgeon with some form of cancer, a witness would watch as the hands of the surgeon seem to disappear into the body and extract a bloody, cancerous piece of flesh - which is believed to be the offending tumour.
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