Asylum

Asylum may refer to:

Kinds of asylum

• Asylum (antiquity), places of refuge in ancient Greece and Rome
  • Cities of Refuge, places of refuge in ancient Judea
• Benevolent Asylum, a 19th-century Australian institution for housing the destitute
• Church asylum or sanctuary, a right to be safe from arrest in the sanctuary of a church or temple
• Insane asylum or lunatic asylum, an obsolete type of institution for housing those deemed insane: see History of psychiatric institutions
• Orphan asylum or orphanage, an institution dedicated to caring for orphans
• Right of asylum or political asylum

Art and entertainment

Companies

• Asylum Entertainment, an American television production company
• The Asylum, an American film production company

Film

• Asylum (1972 horror film), a horror film starring Peter Cushing
• Asylum (1972 documentary film), a film featuring the psychiatrist R. D. Laing
• Asylum (1997 film), an American zobi film starring Robert Patrick and Malcolm McDowell
• Asylum (2003 film), an American short documentary
• Asylum aka The Refuge (2003 film), a British/American independent drama directed by Nigel Roffe-Barker
• 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 (2014 film), an American horror film

Literature

• Asylum (comics), two characters in the Marvel Comics universe
• Asylum (Maximum), a comic series
• Asylum (Darvill-Evans novel), a 2001 Doctor Who novel
• Asylum (McGrath novel), a 1996 novel by Patrick McGrath
• Asylums (book), a 1961 nonfiction book by Erving Goffman
• Asylum, a comic published by New Comics Group
• The Asylum; or Alonzo and Melissa, a 1811 American novel by Isaac Mitchell
• The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked the World's Oil Market, a 2011 book by Leah McGrath Goodman
• Asylum (magazine), a magazine about mental health and psychiatry

Music

• Asylum Records, an American record label
• Asylum Street Spankers, the band

Albums

• Asylum (Disturbed album), 2010
• Asylum (Kiss album), 1985
• Asylum (The Legendary Pink Dots album), 1985
• Asylum (The Back Horn album), 2010

Songs

• "Asylum" (The Orb song), 1997
• "Asylum", by Disturbed from Asylum (Disturbed album)
• "Asylum", by Alanis Morissette from Flavors of Entanglement (non-album track)
• "Asylum", by Flymore
• "Asylum", from The Pleasure Principle
• "Asylum", by Onslaught from In Search of Sanity
• "Asylum", by Slaughterhouse, featuring Eminem, from Welcome to: Our House
• "Asylum", by Supertramp from Crime of the Century
• "Asylum", by John Legend from Love in the Future
• "The Asylum", by Aiden from Knives
• "The Asylum", by Edguy from Rocket Ride
• "The Asylum", by The Tears from Here Come the Tears

Television

• American Horror Story: Asylum, the second season of American Horror Story
• Asylum (1996 TV series), a 1996 UK comedy series
• Asylum (BBC TV series), a 2015 UK comedy series
• "Asylum" (Sliders), an episode of Sliders
• "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 (2016 video game), a survival-horror game

Places

• Asylum, California, U.S.
• Asylum Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
• Asylum Arena, a former name of 2300 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)