This month’s British Journal of Psychiatry has a brief but fascinating article about a 1979 Marvel comic featuring and written by rock legend Alice Cooper which depicts his real-life admission to a psychiatric ward.
The comic was timed to coincide with the release of his concept album From The Inside which describes his experiences as a psychiatric patient being treated for severe alcoholism and depression.
He was there for 3 months and in the comic he depicts the patients, doctors and nurses he met during his admission. Alice has often commented in interviews that treatment in hospital and recovering from his substance misuse saved his life, when many similar artists at that time, such as Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, were not as fortunate, succumbing to their addictions. The lead single from the album was ‘How You Gonna See Me Now’, a song describing the anxiety the singer felt coming back home to his wife after his stay in hospital and facing the stigma of being treated for his mental illness. It went on to become a well-known successful ballad. The comic can still be found in comic shops or through online auction sites.
Link to brief British Journal of Psychiatry article.
Mind Hacks 
unfortunately I can’t get access to the “fascinating article”, very irritating these paywall things, just saying:
“You do not have access to the full text of this article, the first page of the PDF of this article appears below.”
but I did manage to find a link to the Alice Cooper album:
one out of two can’t be bad
The old debate. How many lives does psychiatry save versus how many does it destroy?
Is Satan or God keeping track of the numbers?
Psychiatry drugging its patients for life is not a life.