The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined. It was an early precursor of the...

The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum was a psychiatric hospital located in Weston, West Virginia and known by other names such as West Virginia Hospital...

The Athens Lunatic Asylum, now a mixed-use development known as The Ridges, was a Kirkbride Plan mental hospital operated in Athens, Ohio, from 1874 until...

West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum is the third studio album by British indie rock band Kasabian, which was released on 5 June 2009. It was the band's first...

Seacliff Lunatic Asylum (often Seacliff Asylum, later Seacliff Mental Hospital) was a psychiatric hospital in Seacliff, New Zealand. When built in the...

located in Beechworth, a town of Victoria, Australia. Mayday Hills Lunatic Asylum was the second such Hospital to be built in Victoria, being one of the...

Kew Lunatic Asylum is a decommissioned heritage-listed psychiatric hospital located between Princess Street and Yarra Boulevard in Kew, a suburb of Melbourne...

London NHS Trust. The hospital was first known as the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Completed in 1863, it was built to a design by Sir Joshua Jebb, an...

Volterra Psychiatric Hospital (Italian: Ospedale Psichiatrico di Volterra) is a former psychiatric hospital in the city of Volterra in the Italian region...

Friern Hospital (formerly Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum) was a psychiatric hospital in the parish of Friern Barnet close to a crossroads which had a hamlet...

State Hospital (ASH), formerly known until 1925 as the Texas State Lunatic Asylum, is a 299-bed psychiatric hospital located in Austin, Texas. It is the...

Lancashire County Lunatic Asylum and Lancashire County Asylum are historical names for: The first Lancashire County Lunatic Asylum, Lancaster Moor Hospital...

Western Lunatic Asylums Meeting of the Commission', Staunton Spectator, November 30, 1869 1869, p. 1. F. Stribling, Annual Report of the Western Lunatic Asylum...

which the insane were confined in county asylums, private madhouses, charitable asylums and in the lunatic wards of Poor-Law workhouses. In June 1816...

Hospital, also known as the State Lunatic Hospital at Danvers, The Danvers Lunatic Asylum, and The Danvers State Insane Asylum, was a psychiatric hospital located...

Ararat Lunatic Asylum, Aradale and its two sister asylums at Kew and Beechworth were commissioned to accommodate the growing number of 'lunatics' in the...

eight studio albums – Kasabian (2004), Empire (2006), West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum (2009), Velociraptor! (2011), 48:13 (2014), For Crying Out Loud (2017)...

Porirua Lunatic Asylum (alternates: Porirua Asylum, Porirua Hospital, Porirua Psychiatric Hospital; currently: Porirua Hospital Museum) was a psychiatric...

The Bedford Lunatic Asylum was a mental health facility. It opened in 1812 and closed in 1860. Samuel Whitbread headed the committee which commissioned...

former lunatic asylum and psychiatric hospital listed as a Category I building, located in Point Chevalier, Auckland. Serving as the main asylum for Auckland...

The Maddalena lunatic asylum was a famous insane asylum, established in 1813 in Aversa, near Naples, Italy. It was founded by Joachim Murat, and for a...

Modern psychiatric hospitals have evolved from the older concept of lunatic asylums, shifting focus from mere containment and restraint to evidence-based...

with a knife. He was first held at Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, and then transferred to the Leavesden Asylum. Police officials from the time of the murders...

Judea Church asylum or sanctuary, a right to be safe from arrest in the sanctuary of a church or temple Lunatic asylum or mental asylum, a historical...

effort led to the construction of the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum, the first complete asylum built on the Kirkbride Plan. Thomas Story Kirkbride (1809–1883)...

The Sheboygan County Hospital for the Insane was a former lunatic asylum serving Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. Opened in 1876 in Winooski, it was replaced...

Charenton was a lunatic asylum founded in 1645 by the Frères de la Charité (Brothers of Charity) in Charenton-Saint-Maurice, now Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne...

Castle Hill Lunatic Asylum was Australia's first official institution which provided care for the mentally ill. It was located approximately 7 miles (11 km)...

inpatients. Patients sometimes shared a bed. The building of the Manchester Lunatic Asylum on the same site as the main hospital was completed in 1765. In 1849...

that the Kent County Asylum at Barming Heath, Maidstone, was no longer large enough to accommodate all the county's pauper lunatics, a search began for...