ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents the closing thoughts of the key concepts discussed in preceding chapters of this book. The book examines the extent to which the analysed texts are interconnected in terms of their constituent themes and processes. The links between popular music and Anti-psychiatry occurred and then subsequently diminished. The book concerning the appeal of madness as a topic for musical exploration. The myth of the sick artist, people may suppose, has established itself because it is of advantage to the various groups who have one or another relation with art. To the artist himself the myth gives some of the ancient powers and privileges of the idiot and the fool, half-prophetic creatures, or of the mutilated priest. Anti-psychiatric ideas they exhibit - and each draws on a slightly different, and often nebulous, combination of medical, social and cultural beliefs surrounding madness -their predilection for questioning normality and posing alternative realities results in a further shared characteristic.
