Asylum
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Asylum may refer:
- Psychiatric hospital, once known as an insane asylum, is a hospital specializing in the treatment of persons with mental illness
- Right of asylum, also known as Political asylum
- Asylum seeker, also known as Refugee
- Destitute Asylum, an institution built in the 1850s in Adelaide, Australia for isolating cases of extreme poverty.
- Orphan asylum, an institution dedicated to caring for orphans
- Asylum, youth group in CCC Centrewest, Cnr Egerton & Silverwater Rds Silverwater NSW
In music:
- Asylum Records, an American record label geared primarily in hip-hop music
- Asylum (album) (1985) by the band KISS
- Asylum, an album by the Legendary Pink Dots
- Soul Asylum, a band formed in 1983, best known for their single "Runaway Train"
In fiction:
- Asylum (film) of the Patrick McGrath novel, made in 2005
- Asylum (1997 film), starring Robert Patrick
- Asylum (television), 1996 UK comedy series
- Asylum (comic), a comic series
- Asylum (1972 film), a 1972 horror film with Peter Cushing
- Asylum (2007 film), a 2007 horror film from director David R. Ellis
- Asylum (Doctor Who), a Doctor Who novel
In gaming
- Asylum (video game), released for the Commodore 64 in 1986
- A Dungeons & Dragons adventure, Last of the Shackled City Adventure Path, published in Dungeon Magazine
- Asylum MUD, a highly popular Multi-User Dungeon
- In Shadow Man, the main fortress of the vilains ingame.
In radio
- The Asylum (radio show), aired in the 1980s on WMBR
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