title: A diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders history of premenstrual dysphoric disorder.
abstract: The proposals to include a menstruation-related mood disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Revised Third Edition (DSM-III-R), and DSM-IV led to intense public and behind-the-scenes controversy. Although the controversies surrounding the DSM-5 revision were greater in number than the controversies of the earlier revisions, the DSM-5 proposal to include a menstruation-related mood disorder was not among them. Premenstrual dysphoric disorder was made an official disorder in the DSM-5 with no significant protest. To understand the factors that led to this change, we interviewed those psychiatrists and psychologists who were most involved in the DSM-IV revision. On the basis of these interviews, we offer a list of empirical and nonempirical considerations that led to the DSM-IV compromise and explore how key alterations in these considerations led to a different outcome for the DSM-5.
authors.affiliation: *Department of Psychology, Auburn University Montgomery, AL; and †Virginia Institute of Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Department of Psychiatry and Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zachar
authors.forename: Kenneth S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Kendler
mesh_terms: D032921:Consensus; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005260:Female; D019513:Feminism; D006801:Humans; D011293:Premenstrual Syndrome / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D012720:Severity of Illness Index