In my thesis, I investigate the influence of the social perception of gender on the diagnosis of mental illnesses in the 19th century. Considering the historical and social variability of the definition of mental illnesses, the time-based understanding of madness and the different relation between the genders, I define the causes and symptoms of the most common psychiatric diagnoses of the 19th century. I also describe how the temporal development of psychiatry took place on European territory. I compare the frequency of various mental illnesses in women and men, using available archival data from the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia and the analysis of medical records of the time, and I pay particular attention to the Slovenian area.
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