Asylum

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Asylum may refer to:

• Right of asylum or political asylum
• Insane asylum or psychiatric hospital, a hospital specializing in the treatment of persons with mental illness- such as insanity
• Orphan asylum or orphanage, an institution dedicated to caring for orphans
• Benevolent Asylum, 19th-century Australian institution for housing the destitute

In music:

• Asylum Records, an American record label
• Asylum (album), an album by Kiss
• Asylum (Legendary Pink Dots album)
• "Asylum" (song), a song by The Orb from Oblivion
• "Asylum", a song by Supertramp from Crime of the Century
• "The Asylum", a song by Edguy
• "Asylum", a song by Gary Numan released as a bonus track on his album The Pleasure Principle
• "Asylum", a song by Alanis Morissette from the Flavors of Entanglement sessions
• The Asylum Tour of Emilie Autumn "The Asylum" is also the name of her official home page and a vast imaginary world. She is soon releasing the book "The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls"
• Asylum Entertainment, an American entertainment company and record label founded in 1992
• The Asylum (band), a heavy metal band

In films and television:

• The Asylum, a film studio
• Asylum (1972 film), a horror film starring Peter Cushing
• Asylum (2003 film), a documentary film
• Asylum (2005 film), a drama film by David Mackenzie from the novel by Patrick McGrath
• Asylum (2008 film), a horror film by David R. Ellis
• Asylum (television), a 1996 UK comedy series
• "Asylum" (Supernatural), an episode of Supernatural
• "Asylum" (Torchwood), an episode of the third series of Torchwood

In other uses:

• Asylum (comic), a comic series
• Asylum (Doctor Who), a Doctor Who novel
• Asylums (book), a nonfiction book by Erving Goffman
• Asylum (novel), by Patrick McGrath
• Asylum (1991 video game), an arcade game released by Leland
• Asylum (1986 video game), a video game for the Commodore 64
• The Asylum (radio show), a 1980s radio show on WMBR
• Asylum, California, a community in Mendocino County

[edit] See also

• Asylum seeker
• Asylum 45, an album by Non-Divine
• Soul Asylum, a band formed in 1983
• "Asylum #9", a song by W.A.S.P

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