Asylum (Seabrook book)

{{Short description|1935 memoir by William Seabrook}}

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| author = William Seabrook

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| language = English

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| genre = Memoir

| publisher = Harcourt Brace

| pub_date = 1935

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Asylum, also known as Asylum (An Alcoholic Takes the Cure), is a memoir by American travel writer William Seabrook, first published in 1935 by Harcourt Brace. The book documents Seabrook's experiences in Bloomingdale Asylum in New York, where he was committed from 1933 to 1934 or 1935 for his alcoholism.{{cite web|url=https://observer.com/2015/12/the-best-book-about-addiction-youve-never-heard-of-is-back-into-print-after-50-years/|title=The Best Book About Addiction You've Never Heard of Is Back in Print After 50 Years|last=Holiday|first=Ryan|date=December 7, 2015|website=Observer.com|access-date=June 15, 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/cannibals-zombies-and-hexes-on-hitler-the-life-and-times-of-william-seabrook/|title=Cannibals, Zombies, and Hexes on Hitler: The Life and Times of William Seabrook|last=Welton|first=Benjamin|date=March 7, 2015|website=Vice|access-date=June 15, 2023}}{{cite book|last=Murray|first=Heather|date=2022|title=Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=enhGEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA24|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|pages=24–25|isbn=978-0812253573}}

Asylum is mentioned, though not by name, in The Crack-Up, a 1945 posthumous collection of essays by F. Scott Fitzgerald.{{cite book|last=Fitzgerald|first=F. Scott|author-link=F. Scott Fitzgerald|editor-last=West III|editor-first=James L. W.|date=2005|chapter=Explanatory Notes|title=Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920–1940 (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald)|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tm-aQYp-EfsC&pg=PA273|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=273|isbn=978-0521402392}} Asylum was republished in 1947 by Bantam Books, and again in 2015 by Dover Publications.