Studies on the history of sexual violence against women are well known (Kalra & Bhugra 2013; O'Toole et al., 2007; Terry & Hoare 2007), but not a lot of attention has been paid to the history of women who were treated in psychiatric hospitals for the consequences of sexual trauma. Most experts considered the history of sexual abuse of women from the perspective of victims who had not been institutionalized within health care institutions. However there have been few scientific publications that have dealt with the history of female psychiatric patients (Seferovic 2019; Tasca et al. 2012). In order to expand the existing knowledge of this subcategory of the female population and thereby create history teaching material elaborating the causes and consequences of sexual violence they experienced, it is important to encourage archival research into their psychiatric medical records. The goal of introducing this sensitive and controversial topic into history teaching is to make secondary school students aware of the cultural conditioning of sexual violence against women throughout history, and to sensitize them to the consequences of these traumatic experiences for their psychosocial functioning. This article describes the research Jelena Seferovic has done examining the medical records of female patients who were treated at the Royal Institute for the Mentally Ill, the first psychiatric hospital in Croatia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.