Keith Ablow
Encyclopedia
Keith Russell Ablow is an American
psychiatrist
, New York Times best-selling author, and television personality who now serves as a Fox News contributor on psychiatry
, while maintaining private practices in Newburyport, Massachusetts and Manhattan, New York.
. He graduated from Brown University
in 1983, magna cum laude, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Neurosciences. He received his Doctor of Medicine
degree from Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1987, and completed his psychiatry
residency
at the Tufts-New England Medical Center.
While a medical student, he worked as a reporter for Newsweek
and a freelancer for the Washington Post and Baltimore Sun. After his residency, Ablow served as medical director of the Tri-City Mental Health Centers and then went on to become medical director of Heritage Health Systems.
and New York City
. Ablow has testified in numerous high-profile cases, including those of Dr. Richard Sharpe, Clark Rockefeller
, Richard Rosenthal, Mary Winkler
and Joseph Druce
.
During May, 2011 Ablow launched Dr. Keith Ablow Life Coaching, offering a team of life coaches trained by him who are experts at applying the content of his books "Living the Truth: Transform Your Life Through the Power of Insight and Honesty" and "The 7: Seven Wonders that Will Change Your Life."
and Los Angeles
from 1985-1989. He was the first Arthur Ulene, MD Fellow at Lifetime Medical Television. He was selected by the American Association for the Advancement as a Fellow, as well, and worked under their direction as a reporter and writer at Newsweek. The American Medical Association awarded him its Jerry Pettis Award for Excellence in Communicating Science to the Public. He authored his first book, Medical School: Getting In, Staying In, Staying Human in 1987. In 2003 he created and was the Executive Producer of the CBS
pilot, Expert Witness, starring Matthew Modine
.
Ablow has written hundreds of columns/articles for publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, U.S. News and World Report, USA Today, Newsweek, The Baltimore Sun and The Boston Herald.
He has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show
, the Today Show,
The Howard Stern Show, Good Morning America
, the CBS "Early Show," "Larry King," The Tyra Banks Show
, Nancy Grace (CNN) program)
, Catherine Crier Live, "Glenn Beck," "Fox & Friends," "Geraldo," "Imus," "Montel," "Sally Jesse," "Maury Povich," "Inside Edition," "Showbiz Tonight," "Doctor's Radio," and The O'Reilly Factor
. He has been interviewed by Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer, Matt Lauer, Meredith Viera and many other print, television and radio journalists.
From June 2006 through September 2007, Ablow was host and executive producer of his own national daily talk show
, The Dr. Keith Ablow Show, syndicated by Warner Bros.
On October 17, 2006 he obtained an exclusive interview with John Mark Karr
, the man who falsely confessed to being the murderer of beauty pageant child star JonBenet Ramsey
. After interviewing Karr, Ablow asserted he was dealing with a "textbook case of pedophilia
" and that Karr would continue to pose a threat to society once free.
Following his show's cancellation, Ablow has been a contributing editor for Good Housekeeping Magazine and Men's Fitness
, and a columnist for the New York Post
. He also contributes medical commentary and analysis for the Fox News Channel
.
Ablow is the author of six psychological thrillers featuring Frank Clevenger, a forensic psychiatrist dedicated to a search for truth, no matter where it leads. More than one of the titles was a USA Today bestseller.
Ablow's true crime book, "Inside the Mind of Scott Peterson," was a New York Times bestseller.
In 2007, Ablow published a prescriptive self-help
book, Living the Truth: Transform Your Life Through the Power of Insight and Honesty in conjunction with a self-help web community.
On January 6, 2010, Ablow was physically assault
ed and kicked in the head by white supremacist
and alleged murderer Keith Luke while visiting him in jail. Luke's defense attorneys had hired Ablow to assist with an insanity defense.
Ablow's most recent book, The 7, co-authored by Glenn Beck
, was released in January 2011 and was a New York Times bestseller.
In April 2011, Ablow wrote a health column for FoxNews.com which criticized designer Jenna Lyons for publishing an advertisement in the J. Crew catalogue in which she was depicted painting her young son's toenails hot pink. Ablow wrote that gender distinctions are "part of the magnificent synergy that creates and sustains the human race". The column sparked a controversy around his claims that painting a child's toenails pink could have an effect on their gender identity and led to accusations of overreaction, as was reported upon by numerous news media sources. Ablow refused to back down, even re-posting the column on his Facebook page.
During May, 2011 Ablow hosted a week of radio broadcasts for Boston's WTKK radio, 96.9 FM, as a prelude to a possible program of his own.
Ablow has also written widely circulated columns on FoxNews.com addressing treatment strategies for major depression, anxiety disorders and substance abuse disorders.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
psychiatrist
Psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities...
, New York Times best-selling author, and television personality who now serves as a Fox News contributor on psychiatry
Psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities...
, while maintaining private practices in Newburyport, Massachusetts and Manhattan, New York.
Early life and training
Ablow was born and raised in Marblehead, MassachusettsMarblehead, Massachusetts
Marblehead is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 19,808 at the 2010 census. It is home to the Marblehead Neck Wildlife Sanctuary and Devereux Beach...
. He graduated from Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
in 1983, magna cum laude, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Neurosciences. He received his Doctor of Medicine
Doctor of Medicine
Doctor of Medicine is a doctoral degree for physicians. The degree is granted by medical schools...
degree from Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1987, and completed his psychiatry
Psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities...
residency
Residency (medicine)
Residency is a stage of graduate medical training. A resident physician or resident is a person who has received a medical degree , Podiatric degree , Dental Degree and who practices...
at the Tufts-New England Medical Center.
While a medical student, he worked as a reporter for Newsweek
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
and a freelancer for the Washington Post and Baltimore Sun. After his residency, Ablow served as medical director of the Tri-City Mental Health Centers and then went on to become medical director of Heritage Health Systems.
Private practice
Since 1996 Ablow has had a private practice of forensic, adult and adolescent psychiatry with offices in Newburyport, MassachusettsNewburyport, Massachusetts
Newburyport is a small coastal city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, 35 miles northeast of Boston. The population was 21,189 at the 2000 census. A historic seaport with a vibrant tourism industry, Newburyport includes part of Plum Island...
and New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. Ablow has testified in numerous high-profile cases, including those of Dr. Richard Sharpe, Clark Rockefeller
Clark Rockefeller
Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter is a German man who moved to the United States as a teenager to study, and thereafter assumed many aliases. Using the false name Clark Rockefeller, he married a Harvard Business School graduate student named Sandra Boss...
, Richard Rosenthal, Mary Winkler
Mary Winkler
Mary Carol Winkler was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the 2006 shooting death of her husband, Matthew Winkler, the pulpit minister at the Fourth Street Church of Christ in the small town of Selmer, Tennessee...
and Joseph Druce
Joseph Druce
Joseph Druce is a convicted murderer best known for having killed John Geoghan - the former Roman Catholic priest who was convicted of sexually abusing children, and who had also been at the center of the Catholic sexual abuse scandal.In August 2003, while in protective custody at the...
.
During May, 2011 Ablow launched Dr. Keith Ablow Life Coaching, offering a team of life coaches trained by him who are experts at applying the content of his books "Living the Truth: Transform Your Life Through the Power of Insight and Honesty" and "The 7: Seven Wonders that Will Change Your Life."
Television and writing career
As a medical student, Ablow became medical editor and producer for Lifetime Medical Television in New York CityNew York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
and Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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from 1985-1989. He was the first Arthur Ulene, MD Fellow at Lifetime Medical Television. He was selected by the American Association for the Advancement as a Fellow, as well, and worked under their direction as a reporter and writer at Newsweek. The American Medical Association awarded him its Jerry Pettis Award for Excellence in Communicating Science to the Public. He authored his first book, Medical School: Getting In, Staying In, Staying Human in 1987. In 2003 he created and was the Executive Producer of the CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
pilot, Expert Witness, starring Matthew Modine
Matthew Modine
Matthew Avery Modine is an award-winning American actor. His film roles include Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, the title character in Alan Parker's Birdy, high school wrestler Louden Swain in Vision Quest, football star turned spy Alec McCall in Funky Monkey and the...
.
Ablow has written hundreds of columns/articles for publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, U.S. News and World Report, USA Today, Newsweek, The Baltimore Sun and The Boston Herald.
He has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show is an American syndicated talk show hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey. It ran nationally for 25 seasons beginning in 1986, before concluding in 2011. It is the highest-rated talk show in American television history....
, the Today Show,
The Howard Stern Show, Good Morning America
Good Morning America
Good Morning America is an American morning news and talk show that is broadcast on the ABC television network; it debuted on November 3, 1975. The weekday program airs for two hours; a third hour aired between 2007 and 2008 exclusively on ABC News Now...
, the CBS "Early Show," "Larry King," The Tyra Banks Show
The Tyra Banks Show
The Tyra Banks Show, also known as and shortened to Tyra or The Tyra Show, is an American talk show hosted by Tyra Banks. The last new episode aired on Friday, May 28, 2010.-2005-2009: Syndication:...
, Nancy Grace (CNN) program)
Nancy Grace (TV program)
Nancy Grace is an American current affairs program hosted by legal commentator Nancy Grace that airs weekdays on HLN which mainly deals with current-day true crime cases.-Controversies:...
, Catherine Crier Live, "Glenn Beck," "Fox & Friends," "Geraldo," "Imus," "Montel," "Sally Jesse," "Maury Povich," "Inside Edition," "Showbiz Tonight," "Doctor's Radio," and The O'Reilly Factor
The O'Reilly Factor
The O'Reilly Factor, originally titled The O'Reilly Report from 1996 to 1998 and often called The Factor, is an American talk show on the Fox News Channel hosted by commentator Bill O'Reilly, who often discusses current controversial political issues with guests.The program was the most watched...
. He has been interviewed by Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer, Matt Lauer, Meredith Viera and many other print, television and radio journalists.
From June 2006 through September 2007, Ablow was host and executive producer of his own national daily talk show
Talk show
A talk show or chat show is a television program or radio program where one person discuss various topics put forth by a talk show host....
, The Dr. Keith Ablow Show, syndicated by Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
On October 17, 2006 he obtained an exclusive interview with John Mark Karr
John Mark Karr
Alexis Valoran Reich is an American male-to-female transgender person formerly known as John Mark Karr who in 2006 falsely confessed to the unsolved murder of six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey. She has, on other occasions, faced a number of other criminal charges.-Childhood:Karr was born in Conyers,...
, the man who falsely confessed to being the murderer of beauty pageant child star JonBenet Ramsey
JonBenét Ramsey
JonBenét Patricia Ramsey was an American child beauty pageant contestant who was murdered in her home in Boulder, Colorado, in 1996. The six-year-old's body was found in the basement of the family home nearly eight hours after she was reported missing. She had been struck on the head and strangled...
. After interviewing Karr, Ablow asserted he was dealing with a "textbook case of pedophilia
Pedophilia
As a medical diagnosis, pedophilia is defined as a psychiatric disorder in adults or late adolescents typically characterized by a primary or exclusive sexual interest in prepubescent children...
" and that Karr would continue to pose a threat to society once free.
Following his show's cancellation, Ablow has been a contributing editor for Good Housekeeping Magazine and Men's Fitness
Men's Fitness
Men's Fitness is a men's magazine published by American Media, Inc and founded in the United States in 1987. The premier issue featured Michael Pare from the television series The Greatest American Hero....
, and a columnist for the New York Post
New York Post
The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and is generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, although – as is the case with most other papers – its publication has been periodically interrupted by labor actions...
. He also contributes medical commentary and analysis for the Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel , often called Fox News, is a cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of News Corporation...
.
Ablow is the author of six psychological thrillers featuring Frank Clevenger, a forensic psychiatrist dedicated to a search for truth, no matter where it leads. More than one of the titles was a USA Today bestseller.
Ablow's true crime book, "Inside the Mind of Scott Peterson," was a New York Times bestseller.
In 2007, Ablow published a prescriptive self-help
Self-help
Self-help, or self-improvement, is a self-guided improvement—economically, intellectually, or emotionally—often with a substantial psychological basis. There are many different self-help movements and each has its own focus, techniques, associated beliefs, proponents and in some cases, leaders...
book, Living the Truth: Transform Your Life Through the Power of Insight and Honesty in conjunction with a self-help web community.
On January 6, 2010, Ablow was physically assault
Assault
In law, assault is a crime causing a victim to fear violence. The term is often confused with battery, which involves physical contact. The specific meaning of assault varies between countries, but can refer to an act that causes another to apprehend immediate and personal violence, or in the more...
ed and kicked in the head by white supremacist
White supremacy
White supremacy is the belief, and promotion of the belief, that white people are superior to people of other racial backgrounds. The term is sometimes used specifically to describe a political ideology that advocates the social and political dominance by whites.White supremacy, as with racial...
and alleged murderer Keith Luke while visiting him in jail. Luke's defense attorneys had hired Ablow to assist with an insanity defense.
Ablow's most recent book, The 7, co-authored by Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
Glenn Edward Lee Beck is an American conservative radio host, vlogger, author, entrepreneur, political commentator and former television host. He hosts the Glenn Beck Program, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show that airs throughout the United States on Premiere Radio Networks...
, was released in January 2011 and was a New York Times bestseller.
In April 2011, Ablow wrote a health column for FoxNews.com which criticized designer Jenna Lyons for publishing an advertisement in the J. Crew catalogue in which she was depicted painting her young son's toenails hot pink. Ablow wrote that gender distinctions are "part of the magnificent synergy that creates and sustains the human race". The column sparked a controversy around his claims that painting a child's toenails pink could have an effect on their gender identity and led to accusations of overreaction, as was reported upon by numerous news media sources. Ablow refused to back down, even re-posting the column on his Facebook page.
During May, 2011 Ablow hosted a week of radio broadcasts for Boston's WTKK radio, 96.9 FM, as a prelude to a possible program of his own.
Ablow has also written widely circulated columns on FoxNews.com addressing treatment strategies for major depression, anxiety disorders and substance abuse disorders.
Non-fiction
- Medical School: Getting In, Staying In, Staying Human (1987)
- How to Cope with Depression (1989)
- To Wrestle With Demons: A Psychiatrist Struggles to Understand His Patients and Himself (1992)
- Anatomy of a Psychiatric Illness: Healing the Mind and Brain (1993)
- The Strange Case of Dr. Kappler: The Doctor Who Became a Killer (1994)
- Without Mercy: The Shocking True Story of a Doctor Who Murdered (1996)
- Inside the Mind of Scott PetersonScott PetersonScott Lee Peterson , an American, was convicted of murdering his wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn child in Modesto, California, in 2002. Peterson's arrest and subsequent trial dominated the American news media until 2005, when he was sentenced to death by lethal injection...
(2005) - Living the Truth: Transform Your Life Through the Power of Insight and Honesty (2007)
- The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life (2011) (co-authored with Glenn BeckGlenn BeckGlenn Edward Lee Beck is an American conservative radio host, vlogger, author, entrepreneur, political commentator and former television host. He hosts the Glenn Beck Program, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show that airs throughout the United States on Premiere Radio Networks...
)
Fiction/mystery
The series features Frank Clevenger, a forensic psychiatrist from Massachusetts.- Denial (1998)
- Projection (1999)
- Compulsion (2002)
- Psychopath (2003)
- Murder Suicide (2004)
- The Architect (2005)
External links
- Dr. Keith Ablow's bio
- Living the Truth
- FOX Health blog, "Mind of the News"
- Contributor for SingleMindedWomen.com
- Keith Ablow interview, about one of his books (Murder/Suicide)
- Interview with Dr. Keith Ablow on 'How to Make Your Marriage Last'
- TV Series Finale - TV series cancellation details