This seminar will explore the emergence of sciences of the self in the West from the late eighteenth century to the twenty-first century from a gender perspective. We will concentrate on psychiatry and psychology and explore how they shaped and remade the lives of men and women and gender relations. Using interdisciplinary scholarship from history, critical theory, and psychology topics will include: gender and the birth of modern psychiatry and psychology; the medicalization of gender and ethnic difference; psychology and the history of sexuality; sexology; gender, neurosis and trauma; psychoanalysis, men and women; gender and hysteria; masculinity, war and shell shock, and gender and the rise of the “Prozac Nation.”