To Wrestle with Demons

Psychiatrist Keith Russell Ablow reflects on the patients whose struggles challenged his training, tested his assumptions, and affected his own inner life. Moving through clinical encounters and personal response, he considers how buried experience, loneliness, identity, and emotional pain emerge within therapy. To Wrestle with Demons offers a candid view of psychiatric work from inside the consulting room, focusing not only on the people seeking help but also on the responsibility, uncertainty, and human vulnerability carried by the physician attempting to understand them.