Inna Sevelius: Psykiatrin som kulturell praktik: Bedömningen av patienter på Ulleråkers sjukhus år 1948. Uppsala universitet: Inst. för idé- och lärdomshistoria, masteruppsats, vårtermin, 2011. Uppsatsens syfte är att bidra till psykiatrins historia genom en studie av hittills outforskade patientjournaler från Ulleråkers sjukhus i Uppsala. Frågeställningen är vilka konventioner ? medicinska och kulturella ? som läkarnas bedömningspraktik baseras på.

This paper is interested in Swedish psychiatry during the period between 1930-1950,localized to Mariebergs hospital in Sweden. The purpose of this paper has been to testSjöstroms evidence of the pattern that he used to create three analytical concepts, roughlytranslated to; morally educative discipline-treatment, the production process and the idealinstitution citizen. Sjöström motivates that his concepts gives insight into one aspect of thepsychiatric expansion between 1860-1960 as well as creates an understanding of psychiatryas an institution. The source material for this paper has been patients' medical notes writtenby the chief physician of the institution. Via a method which mainly different from Sjöstromin its selection, categorization and more thorough presentation, this paper has seen the samepatterns which Sjöström has created his three concepts from.