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Edited by Judith H. Gold and Sally K. Severino. 262 pp. Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Press, 1994. $32. ISBN 0-88048-666-X.

This resource book brings us up to date on the facts about premenstrual dysphoria while showing how these facts are embedded in a sociocultural context that is fraught with psychological meaning and mythology and much in need of continued study and clarification. Premenstrual dysphoric disorder, or premenstrual dysphoria, is the currently accepted term for a controversial condition related to premenstrual syndrome and late-luteal-phase dysphoric disorder that has been added to the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

To meet the diagnostic criteria for premenstrual dysphoric disorder, a woman needs to demonstrate, by keeping daily records . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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