mental asylum

Examples (10)

• In the 19th century, many people with severe psychological disorders were confined to a mental asylum.
• The gothic novel is set in an abandoned mental asylum rumored to be haunted.
• His great-grandfather was unjustly committed to a mental asylum for his political beliefs.
• Documentaries have exposed the harrowing conditions that existed within the old mental asylum.
• Today, the term 'psychiatric hospital' is used instead of the outdated phrase 'mental asylum'.
• He feared that his progressive ideas would lead people to think he belonged in a mental asylum.
• The state archives hold patient records from the city's first mental asylum, which opened in 1890.
• Campaigns for reform led to the closure of the last state-run mental asylum in the 1970s.
• The main character of the play is a nurse working in a post-war mental asylum.
• The architecture of the former mental asylum is both imposing and deeply unsettling.