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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 modern psychiatric hospital. Modern psychiatric hospitals evolved from and eventually replaced the older lunatic asylum.
The meaning of INSANE ASYLUM is a hospital for people with mental illness : a mental hospital.
Before modern psychiatric hospitals, insane asylums detained countless mentally ill patients, criminals, and other "undesirables" in brutal conditions. Some of these facilities held 10 times as many patients as they were meant to accommodate, with some unruly inmates being kept in cages in hallways.
This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.
protection or safety, especially that given by a government to people who have been forced to leave their own countries for their safety or because ... See more at asylum. (Definition of insane and asylum from the Cambridge English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of insane asylum. insane asylum.
/ɪnˌseɪn əˌsaɪləm/ /ɪnˈseɪn əˈsaɪləm/ IPA guide. Other forms: insane asylums. Definitions of insane asylum. noun. a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person. synonyms: asylum, institution, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital. see more. Cite this entry. Style: MLA. "Insane asylum."
Insane-asylum definition: A facility designed where persons with serious mental disorders are housed.
Established in 1855 as the Government Hospital for the Insane, the facility became widely known as "St. Elizabeths" during the Civil War, and took that name officially in 1916.
Most people associate the word “asylum” with squalor and brutality – an impression strengthened by portrayals in books and films like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – but they were...
a former (19th-century) name for a residential institution for the treatment of people with severe mental illness. Also called lunatic asylum. See asylum.