The conclusion engages with the complex and often politically motivated historiography of Victorian psychiatry, charting its development from the mid-twentieth-century model of social control to empirical studies by historians of the early twenty-first century, and including scholarly debate over the importance of gender to nineteenth-century psychiatric diagnoses and treatment. Dr Chapman demonstrates how the book intervenes in these debates, proving that although the treatment of women in psychiatry varied, medical ideas and beliefs about the female mind were consistently gendered: a gap between ideology and practice. The importance of writing to the production and maintenance of these beliefs is emphasised. Forms such as the medical journal and psychiatric textbook are traced to the present day, where they remain a fundamental part of professional practice in a landscape where gendered ideologies continue to impact both women treated by, and working in, psychiatry.