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 DVD Kerry Fox, Alexia Keogh, Karen Fergusson, and Iris Churn 1990
• Bottle Rocket DVD Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Ned Dowd, and Shea Fowler 1996
• Changeling DVD Angelina Jolie, Colm Feore, Denis O'Hare 2008
• Chattahoochee DVD Gary Oldman, Dennis Hopper 1990
• 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 DVD James Stewart, Charles Drake, Cecil Kellaway 1950
• 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 DVD Jacques Balutin, Alan Bates, Jackie Blanchot, and Robert Blome 1967
• 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 DVD Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton 2001
  This story provides a compelling illustration of how the loss of a child can throw an apparently well-functioning family into chaos. Does the survivor suffer from post traumatic stress disorder? In the film Judd Hirsch plays the most human and approachable, yet ethical, psychiatrist yet portrayed in cinema.
• Plath, Sylvia, McCullough, Frances The Bell Jar Hardcover 1996 | Paperback 1983 | Audio Cassette 1997
• The Ruling Class Peter O'Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe, and Harry Andrews 1972
• Shine DVD Geoffrey Rush 1996
• Shock Corridor DVD Peter Breck, John Matthews, Paul Dubov, Philip Ahn 1963
• The Snake Pit DVD Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, and Celeste Holm 1948
• Spider DVD Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne 2002
• Stateside DVD Bridget Barkan, Ed Begley Jr., Shon Blotzer, Agnes Bruckner 2004
• Ward, Mary Jane Snake Pit library binding 1996