Psychiatric hospital

An asylum (TV: The Vault of Secrets), psychiatric institution, (PROSE: Bad Therapy) madhouse, (TV: Ghost Light, The Shakespeare Code) or home for the insane (PROSE: Wolfsbane) was a type of hospital. (TV: The Vault of Secrets)

Bedlam was a notorious asylum in London. In 1599, patients there were whipped for the entertainment of the gentry. The madhouse was a place which was feared by many. (TV: The Shakespeare Code)

The Dalek Asylum was, according to legend, a planet where the Daleks locked up all of their kind which went wrong, including the battle-scarred and the insane. (TV: Asylum of the Daleks)