Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847-1919): Psychiatric hospitalization and the abduction of an American landscape artist.
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2017-02
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Ralph Blakelock was a leading American landscape painter. Much of his life was lived in obscurity and destitution. He developed late onset paranoid schizophrenia, resulting in prolonged hospitalization. During his time in hospital, demand for Blakelock's works grew, but he was unable to enjoy any of this success. Instead, the artist fell prey to unscrupulous and unlikely exploitation by a self-appointed guardian, aided and abetted by Blakelock's psychiatrists, which broke his spirit and may well have hastened his demise.
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Davidson, Jonathan Rt (2017). Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847-1919): Psychiatric hospitalization and the abduction of an American landscape artist. Journal of medical biography, 25(1). pp. 34–42. 10.1177/0967772015583444 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/25989.
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Jonathan R.T. Davidson
Currently, my research focuses upon the theoretical aspects of homeopathy and its clinical utilization, as well as the broader field of alternative (complementary) medicine. this is a field which has traditionally been overlooked as a legitimate scientific discipline. Other areas of activity are as in the past, i.e., clinical treatment, epidemiology, risk factors, pathogenesis of posttraumatic stress, social phobia, other anxiety status, and depression. These are illustrated by recent publications on treatment, epidemiology, health service utilization and quality of life in social phobia and PTSD, drug treatment of panic disorder. Magnetic resonance studies of social phobia have been completed and further studies are planned.
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