“He would have me on my knees and begin to beat me with his hands on my breasts,” she wrote, “occasionally saying, ‘I own you,’ or ‘You are my slave.”- Plaintiff in lawsuit against Dr. Keith Ablow
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Psychiatrist, Dr. Keith Ablow has been famous for his Fox news commentary, which included some dubious theories and assertions on the Obamas.
Ablow, 57, has stirred controversy for combining psychiatric analysis with political views, once saying on Fox News that President Obama had “abandonment issues” and preferred Africa to America, though Ablow had never met him. He also criticized Michelle Obama’s weight on Fox News in 2014, saying, “She needs to drop a few pounds.”
Yeah, that Keith Ablow. The Boston Globe published a story about several women who had been sexually harassed while seeking treatment or working for him. His form of exploitation certainly exposes his particular kinks.
The malpractice lawsuits, two of them filed on Thursday in Essex Superior Court and a third filed last year, paint a picture of a therapist who encouraged women to trust and rely on him, then coaxed them into humiliating sexual activities, often during treatment sessions for which they were charged. When the New York woman had trouble paying her therapy bills, she said, Ablow advised her to work as an escort or stripper because the work was lucrative.
And his employees had unusual working conditions.
Although the women used their real names in their lawsuits, the Globe is withholding their identities at their request. The Globe does not identify alleged victims of sexual abuse without their consent.
However, three women who worked for Ablow agreed to make their names public in affidavits -- included with the lawsuits -- that said Ablow sexually harassed them, too. One former staffer, Amy Dixon, said she had sex with Ablow during which he would regularly hit her and that he told her he wanted a “master/slave relationship.”
And, it gets worse. The doctor put them on drugs. Not to help them, though.
Ablow is facing sexual abuse claims from two additional patients, both of whom say that, like the Minnesota woman, they relocated from other states, at Ablow’s request, to be closer to his Newburyport office where he used a controversial treatment for depression: infusions of Ketamine. The drug, an anesthetic that can induce a trance-like state and memory loss, is sometimes abused but is also used by some clinicians to treat chronic depression.
Andrea Celenza, a Lexington psychoanalyst who interviewed the women and reviewed their medical records as an expert witness hired by the plaintiffs, said in a letter filed with the lawsuits that Ablow’s behavior in the case of the New York woman “was sadomasochistic, anti-therapeutic, and constitutes a perverse use of his status and power.” The former patient said that, during their seven-year sexual relationship, Ablow persuaded her to get his initials tattooed on her arm.
Another expert said that Ablow appeared to be using Ketamine in conjunction with talk therapy to gain control over a third patient, a woman from Ohio.
And — surprise — he’s a big, big fan of the White House Squatter. For instance, when Trump talked about the size of his penis on a nationally televised debate, Ablow was impressed.
“Freud would have been standing up, like applauding, standing ovation,” he said of Trump’s debate performance. “To be able to address such an intensely personal issue and say, ‘Listen, there’s no problem in that department,’ to me, that showed an incredible degree of psychological strength.”
As a matter of fact, Ablow saw Trump as a great role model.
President Trump exemplifies ways of being and communicating that, if mastered by others, could greatly empower them, psychologically and interpersonally. We are not just witnessing a president possessed of certain political ideals; we are witnessing a president with true self-possession,” the celebrity psychiatrist wrote in the first “Trumping Your Life” article, which appeared in April.
And, oh, is Dr. Ablow Trumpian in his work. A woman being given his ketamine treatments related this.
The Ohio woman said Ablow would have her undress and perform oral sex, although he was careful to stop her before climaxing.
“Much later, when I confronted him about this, he informed me that he had a lot to lose and did not want to leave evidence,” the Ohio woman said. The Ohio woman said Ablow asked her to get a tattoo with his initials, but, unlike the New York patient, she declined.
The woman also said Ablow would sometimes beat her as she kneeled.
“Sometimes he would use his hands and other times he would take off the belt he was wearing and use that to strike me,” the woman said. “This belt had a metal buckle with a skull on it.”
Will Trump come to his rescue, as in the Brett Kavanaugh situation? Watch this space.
