• Asylums: Essays on the Condition of the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates is a 1961 collection of four essays by the sociologist Erving...
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  • horror series Asylums (book), a 1961 nonfiction book by Erving Goffman Asylum (1972 horror film), a horror film starring Peter Cushing Asylum (1972 documentary...
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    early 20th centuries, Magdalene asylums were common in several countries. By 1900, there were more than 300 asylums in England and more than 20 in Scotland...
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  • book documents Seabrook's experiences in Bloomingdale Asylum in New York, where he was committed from 1933 to 1934 or 1935 for his alcoholism. Asylum...
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    from and eventually replaced the older lunatic asylum. The treatment of inmates in early lunatic asylums was sometimes brutal and focused on containment...
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  • Asylum. HarperColling. pp. 18. Eisenhart, Mary. "Asylum Book Review". Common Sense Media. Eisenhart, Mary. "Sanctum book review". Common Sense Media....
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    mental asylums were established in Britain; the passing of the County Asylums Act 1808 empowered magistrates to build rate-supported asylums in every...
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  • Asylum was a comic book anthology series published by Rob Liefeld's Maximum Press, and featured several stories in each issue, including Tales of the...
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  • professorship at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her first book The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked the World's Oil Market, about the global...
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    Magdalene Laundries in Ireland (category Magdalene asylums)
    The Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, also known as Magdalene asylums, were institutions usually run by Roman Catholic orders, which operated from the 18th...
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    Inebriate Asylum. Paupers were placed in lunatic asylums. After the 1888 Zox Commission into Asylums, all private/semi-private inebriate asylums were abolished...
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  • The Elizabeth Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane (/ˈɑːrkəm/), commonly referred to as Arkham Asylum, is a fictional forensic psychiatric hospital...
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  • Lomax (1860–1933). The book was an exposé of conditions within two English lunatic asylums based on Lomax's experiences as an Asylum medical officer between...
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  • The Lawrence Military Asylums were a series of military-style boarding schools envisaged by Sir Henry Lawrence in the Indian subcontinent highlands for...
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  • written by veteran Batman writer Paul Dini, Arkham Asylum was inspired by the long-running comic book mythos. In the game's main storyline, Batman battles...
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  • Asylum Seeker, a 2003 video game based on the comic book series Hellboy The Asylum Seeker, a novel by Dutch author published in 2003 Seeking Asylum (film)...
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  • (1985). Asylum (LP Sleeve). New York City, New York: Mercury Records. 826 099-1. "Facebook". www.facebook.com. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992...
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  • is a 1988 autobiographical book by Assata Shakur. The book was written in Cuba where Shakur currently has political asylum. The autobiography begins on...
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  • mental asylums were established in Britain after the passing of the 1808 County Asylums Act. This empowered magistrates to build rate-supported asylums in...
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    insane asylums. Between 1825 and 1865, the number of asylums in the United States increased from nine to sixty-two. The establishment of asylums did not...
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  • Nightmare Asylum is the title of a sci-fi novel by Steve Perry, set in the fictional Alien movie universe. It is a sequel to Aliens: Earth Hive. The book was...
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    asylum and 20% of them were granted. According to USA Today, the number of asylums being granted to Venezuelan claimants has risen from 393 in 2009 to 969...
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  • Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth (often shortened to Batman: Arkham Asylum) is a Batman graphic novel written by Grant Morrison and illustrated...
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    The World secured Bly's release from the asylum. Her report, published in The World and later released as a book, caused a sensation and brought her lasting...
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  • her 2009–2010 North American, European, and Australian tour, the Asylum Tour. The book chronicles Autumn's experiences in a modern day psych ward as well...
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  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. A reference to the 2014 film Stonehearst Asylum. A book by software designer and programmer Alan Cooper, "the father of Visual...
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  • particularly her experience of spending eight years in and out of mental asylums, greatly influenced the content of the novel. "Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame...
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  • "Runaway Train" is a song by American alternative rock band Soul Asylum, released in June 1993 by Columbia Records as the third single from their sixth...
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    Large asylums were slowly phased out, with most operations shifting to small outpatient centers scattered throughout the community. Because the asylums were...
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  • The Amityville Asylum (also known as The Nesting 2: Amityville Asylum) is a 2013 British horror film written and directed by Andrew Jones. It is the eleventh...
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