Hospital devoted to evaluation and treatment of people with mental disorders.

Also: asylum, funny farm, loony bin, lunatic asylum, mental hospital

Literature and movies

• An Angel at My Table Kerry Fox, Alexia Keogh, Karen Fergusson, and Iris Churn 1990
• Amadeus F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, and Simon Callow 1984
•  The Asylum Steffanie Pitt, Nick Waring, Ingrid Pitt, Patrick Mower, Robin Askwith, Colin Baker, Paul Reynolds, Jean Boht, Robin Parkinson, Penn Linfield, Jane Shakespeare, Sadie Nine, Terry Taplin 2000
• Asylum Sarah Roemer, Jake Muxworthy, Mark Rolston, and Travis Van Winkle 2008
• Behind the Lines Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller, and Stuart Bunce 1998
•  The Best of Youth Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Jasmine Trinca, and Adriana Asti 2003
• Birdy Matthew Modine, Nicolas Cage, John Harkins, and Sandy Baron 1984
• Bottle Rocket Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Ned Dowd, and Shea Fowler 1996
• Changeling Angelina Jolie, Colm Feore, Denis O'Hare 2008
• Chattahoochee DVD Gary Oldman, Dennis Hopper 1990
• A Christmas Tale Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, and Anne Consigny 2008
• Death Becomes Her Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn, and Isabella Rossellini 1992
• Elling Per Christian Ellefsen, Sven Nordin, and Marit Pia Jacobsen 2001
• Frances Farmer Paperback 1984
• Frances DVD 1994
  In the film Jessica Lange plays the actress whose questionable mental illness resulted in hospitalization and some of the treatments of her time.
• Girl, Interrupted DVD Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie 2000
• Guest, Judith: Ordinary People: Paperback
• Harvey James Stewart, Charles Drake, Cecil Kellaway 1950
• Igby Goes Down Kieran Culkin, Susan Sarandon, Jeff Goldblum, and Claire Danes 2002
• Kesey, Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Paperback - July 1989) | Library Binding | Mass Market Paperback | Audio Cassette | Audio CD (Unabridged)
• King Of Hearts Jacques Balutin, Alan Bates, Jackie Blanchot, and Robert Blome 1967
• The Long Goodbye Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, and Mark Rydell 1973
• Manic Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Bacall, Zooey Deschanel, and Don Cheadle 2001
•  Mary and Max Toni Collette, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and Barry Humphries 2009
• Miracle on 34th Street Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn, and Natalie Wood 1947
• Neverwas Aaron Eckhart, Ian McKellen, William Hurt, and Bill Bellamy 2005
• Nosferatu DVD Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder, and Alexander Granach 1922
• One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest DVD Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher 1975
• Ordinary People Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton 1980
• Plath, Sylvia, McCullough, Frances The Bell Jar Hardcover 1996 | Paperback 1983 | Audio Cassette 1997
•  Psycho Ward Jacqueline Betts, Bobby Horvath, Liam Card, and Tim Clarke 2007
• The Ruling Class Peter O'Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe, and Harry Andrews 1972
• Séraphine Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent 2008
• Shine DVD Geoffrey Rush 1996
• Shock Corridor Peter Breck, John Matthews, Paul Dubov, Philip Ahn 1963
• Shutter Island Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, and Michelle Williams 2009
• The Snake Pit Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, and Celeste Holm 1948
• Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade Billy Bob Thornton, Molly Ringwald, J.T. Walsh, and Jefferson Mays 1999
• The Three Faces of Eve Joan Woodward, Lee J. Cobb 1957
• Spider Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne 2002
• Stateside Bridget Barkan, Ed Begley Jr., Shon Blotzer, Agnes Bruckner 2004
• Ward, Mary Jane Snake Pit library binding 1996