This chapter examines the communication of gendered psychiatric theories outside of the profession, exploring how the public conceived of and responded to medical beliefs about the female mind. After briefly surveying discussions of female insanity in the popular press, the chapter turns to an unusual example of an article by a mind doctor for a public audience. Henry Maudsley’s ‘Sex in Mind and in Education’, published in the Fortnightly Review, applied psychiatric theory to a social question: whether women should be educated in the same way as men. Maudsley’s article sparked significant debate in the press. Unlike medical journals, non-specialist periodicals allowed a range of contributors, in particular enabling women to have their views heard. Maudsley thus inadvertently allowed medical knowledge of the female mind to be refuted, expanded, and transformed by those outside the profession, the range of textual genres available to writers facilitating a diverse set of responses to his views.