This text is definitive, scientific, readable, and offers a reference and text for specialist gynecologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists working at a high level in their respective professions. It is an academic text of the highest level being authoritative and comprehensive. It has the correct balance between the specialties of psychiatry

Drawing on case histories and her many years of clinical research, Dalton details the medical condition whose sufferers need understanding, support and effective treatment. A fully revised edition of the breakthrough book that describes the symptoms of PMS, the physiological changes that cause them, and strategies that can bring relief. Line drawings.

Topical listing of 267 selected, current articles. Only English-language. Not highly technical, although many medical journals are represented. Entries give brief annotations. Author index.

As the work on a revised edition of the Diagnostic and StatisticaL ManuaL (OSM-llIR) progressed, a great controversy grew over the inclusion of a new diagnostic category, "Premenstrual Phase Dysphoric Disorder." Some nosologists and scientists who study premenstrual syndrome (PMS) felt that, while a specific psychiatric disorder does exist, it occurs relatively rarely. The disorder can be characterized by recurrent periods of dysphoria on a monthly basis, in synchrony with the menstrual period. "PMS" already exists as a diagnosis in leD 9, the international medical nomenclature. The category for DSM-IIIR was to be a specific psychiatric disorder concentrating on the dysphoric reaction, and not including all of the physical and mental symptoms that people have ascribed to this condition. Much of the controversy that ensued had little to do with the diagnostic category or the condition itself. Rather, it concerned feelings voiced by feminist groups that the new diagnostic category would be misleading, that it would inappropriately label women as mentally ill, and that it would be affixed not only to the dysphoric disorder, but everything else that happens psychiatrically to women.

A study of the causes, symptoms, and treatment of premenstrual syndrome explains how women can alleviate PMS by using diet, exercise, vitamin therapy, relaxation technique, and in acute cases, progesterone.