Famed psychiatrist urges passion this political season
Dr. Keith Ablow is a compass point on our cultural map. He's a familiar face and reassuring voice to folks who watch Fox News, Good Morning America, The Today Show, The CBS Early Show, Dr. Oz and just about any other television/radio broadcast that produces current-event content. Board certified in both psychiatry and forensic psychiatry, Dr. Ablow is a regular guest on programs that seek to offer professional insight into people who have captured our pop-cultural fascination with aberrant behavior. In the past he's focused laser-like perspective on hot-button topics such as Chaz Bono's gender transitioning, the murder of Casey Anthony's daughter, Caylee, and the homicide of Scott Peterson's wife, Laci, and their unborn son. The doctor has also openly offered interventional counseling to a drug-dependent national radio entertainer in denial, and marriage counseling for a publicly tortured couple in the private vortex of torrid emotional infidelity. For Keith Ablow, coping with controversy and finding clarity through truth-telling are his personal and professional passions.
According to Kelsey, his gal Friday, the charismatic clinician clocks work weeks of 70 hours and more. With offices in Boston and New York, in addition to maintaining the routines of a regular practice, Ablow offers virtual psych-checkups via Skpye and phone to his sophisticated, world-trekking patients. Routinely, he's contributed medical scholarship to professional periodicals and lectures. The magna cum laude graduate of Brown University and Johns Hopkins Medical School is also a best-selling author of fictional and non-fictional scripts. Rejecting the notion Dr. Frank Clevenger is his fictionalized alter-ego in the series of psycho-sexual thrillers he pens, Dr. Ablow says truth-seeking, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Clevenger is a crime-sleuthing physician from Massachusetts who can be better understood in the plot twisters to trace exaggerations of the real doctor's personality strengths and weaknesses.
