During the 1900s, the medical studies had opened a door that had previously only been thought of a fewtimes but never experienced; the area called psychology. The new area quickly became a central part ofuniversity studies all over the world, mostly in the United States, England and the central Europeancountries of Germany and Austria along with the Soviet Union, with many big names withing this area,such as Sigmund Freud, John B. Watson, Ivan Pavlov and B. F. Skinner. During the 1900s psychiatricinstitutions opened all around the world, with some in Sweden. One of these was located in the city ofKarlstad in Värmland county in the west of Sweden called Ullebergs sinnesslöanstalt.Ulleberg created a new space for mentally challenged women and children in Värmland, as the closest onebefore this was located in Kristinehamn, about a thirty-minute car drive today, but a much longer journeya century ago. Ulleberg had decided to focus on mainly female and adolescent patients, therefore it becamea female-only institute of sorts. In this paper, the question of whether Ulleberg took part in the genderrelated norms in society during the time as well as the medical knowledge and the treatments that wereused in other institutes. This is implemented through a local case study.