Premenstrual syndrome as scientific and cultural artifact

Psychosocial aspects of selected issues in women's reproductive health: Current status and future directions

*Gender and Health: An International Perspective*

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

Emotional distress and the perceived interference of menstruation

*Rethinking Mental Health and Disorder: Feminist Perspectives*

Does PMDD belong in the DSM? Challenging the medicalization of women’s bodies

*Behavioral Medicine and Women: A Comprehensive Handbook*

Everybody knows that most women go a little crazy right before they get their period, that their reproductive hormones cause their emotions to fluctuate wildly. Except: There's very little scientific consensus about premenstrual syndrome. Says psychologist Robyn Stein DeLuca, science doesn't agree on the definition, cause, treatment or even existence of PMS. She explores what we know and don't know about it -- and why the popular myth has persisted.