Asylum

Asylum may refer to:

Politics and society

• Asylum (antiquity), places of refuge in ancient Greece and Rome
• Right of asylum or political asylum
• Church asylum or sanctuary, a right to be safe from arrest in the sanctuary of a church or temple
• Lunatic asylum, an obsolete type of institution for housing the "insane"
• Psychiatric hospital, a hospital specializing in the treatment of serious mental disorders
• Orphan asylum or orphanage, an institution dedicated to caring for orphans
• Benevolent Asylum, a 19th-century Australian institution for housing the destitute

Art and entertainment

Film

• Asylum (1972 film), a British horror film starring Peter Cushing
• Asylum (1997 film), an American horror film starring Robert Patrick and Malcolm McDowell
• Asylum (2003 film), an American short documentary
• Asylum (2005 film), a British drama by David Mackenzie based on the novel by Patrick McGrath (see below)
• Asylum (2008 film), an American horror film by David R. Ellis
• Asylum, a 1972 documentary about the psychiatrist R.D. Laing
• The Asylum, a film studio

Literature

• Asylum (comics), two characters in the Marvel Comics universe
• Asylum (Image Comics), a comic series
• Asylum (Doctor Who), a Doctor Who novel
• Asylum (novel), a novel by Patrick McGrath
• Asylums (book), a nonfiction book by Erving Goffman
• Asylum, a comic published by New Comics Group

Music

• Asylum Entertainment, Asylum-et.com is a social network, entertainment website and record label originally founded in 1992
• Asylum Records, an American record label

Albums

• Asylum (Disturbed album), or the title song
• Asylum (Kiss album)
• Asylum (Legendary Pink Dots album)

Songs

• "Asylum" (The Orb song)
• "Asylum", a song by Alanis Morissette from Flavors of Entanglement (non-album track)
• "Asylum", a song by Flymore
• "Asylum", a song by Gary Numan from The Pleasure Principle
• "Asylum", a song by Onslaught from In Search of Sanity
• "Asylum", a song by Supertramp from Crime of the Century
• "The Asylum", a song by Aiden from Knives
• "The Asylum", a song by Edguy from Rocket Ride
• "The Asylum", a song by The Tears from Here Come the Tears

Television

• Asylum (TV series), a 1996 UK comedy series
• "Asylum" (Law & Order), an episode of Law & Order
• "Asylum" (Supernatural), an episode of Supernatural
• "Asylum" (Torchwood), an episode of Torchwood

Video games

• Asylum (1981 video game), an adventure game
• Asylum (1991 video game), an arcade game
• Asylum (2012 video game), an adventure game

Places

• Asylum, California, U.S.
• Asylum Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
• Asylum Arena, a multi-purpose venue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

See also

• Poorhouse or workhouse, a government-run facility in the past for the support and housing of dependent or needy persons
• Asylum seeker (disambiguation)