Psychiatry: locking up women for better control

Mystics or witches in the Middle Ages and modern times, hysterics in the 19th and 20th centuries, each era has its own definition of female madness. In the twentieth century, with the birth of psychiatry and the creation of asylums, the internment of women took on not only a medical character, but also a social and political one, under the control of men. What were the criteria for confining women in asylums, and the conditions under which they were cared for?