1st Edition

Women and the Ownership of PMS The Structuring of a Psychiatric Disorder

By Anne Figert Copyright 1996
    212 Pages
    by Routledge

    191 Pages
    by Routledge

    This is the first book-length account of the controversy preceding and following the APA’s decision in 1986 to include a premenstrually related diagnosis in its revised diagnostic manual, DSM III-R. Figert examines why the decision was controversial and consequential in three main domains where people, their interests, and claims to ownership coincide: the Health and Mental Health Domain, the Woman Domain, and the Science Domain.

    I: Setting the Stage; 1: Is PMS Real?: PMS as Scientific and Cultural Artifact; 2: Setting the Stage: The DSM and the American Psychiatric Association; 3: The Narrative: From PMS to PDD to LLPDD; II: The Three Domains of Conflict; 4: Accounting for the Controversy; 5: Inter- and Intraprofessional Boundary Disputes: The Health and Mental Health Domain; 6: Who Defines a Normal and Healthy Woman?: The Woman Domain; 7: The “Truth” about PMS and LLPDD: The Science Domain; III: Settling the Conflict; 8: Who Won? Implications and Conclusions; 9: Afterword: DSM-IV and the Controversy Revisited

    Biography

    Anne E. Figert is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Loyola University, Chicago. Dr. Figert received her Ph.D. from Indiana University at Bloom­ington. She is the author of publications on the relationship of science and sociology as well as women and health.