insane asylum
Psychiatric detention facility
An insane asylum is an institution for housing and treating people with severe mental illness.
The term is now considered dated and stigmatizing; modern equivalents include psychiatric hospital or mental health facility.
The phrase persists in historical contexts and horror fiction, where the abandoned insane asylum evokes Gothic dread.
- madhouseChaotic, disordered place
- lobotomySevering prefrontal neural pathways
- shock treatmentElectrical psychiatric therapy
- bedlamState of wild disorder
- wardProtected person; division
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- psychiatric facilitiespsychiatric hospital, mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric facility, psychiatric ward
insane asylumoutpatient clinic
Medical facility without hospitalization
outpatient care · support group · day program · outpatient therapy · home care
insane asylumfreedom
Absence of constraint
liberty · open society · independent living · free world · home
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