Includes bibliographical references, discography and index
Àll the Madmen' : denouncing the psychiatric establishment and supposedly 'sàne' through the art of role play --'Kìll your sons' : Lou Reed's verification of psychiatry's covert social function -- Reversing us and them : anti-psychiatry and Pink Floyd's The dark side of the moon -- T̀he ballad of Dwight Fry' : madness as social deviancy, and the condemnation of involuntary confinement -- The fool's demise : critiques of social exclusion found in the Beatles' T̀he fool on the hill' and Elton John's Màdman across the water' -- Conclusion