SOC 445 Chapter Notes - Chapter Figert - The Three Faces of PMS : Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder, Mental Disorder, Dysphoria

• School: U of M
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 445
• Professor: Professor PJ McGann

Document Summary

Figert analyzes the controversy over the inclusion of late luteal phase dysphoric disorder(llpdd); Now called premenstrual dysphoric disorder in the [dsm-iii-r] through. A social problems perspective she considers three domains of conflict over ownership . In the social worlds perspective, controversies occur when people from different social worlds hold different perspectives about the way something should be defined, pursued, or created. Social worlds have relationships to one another. The actors and groups involved are those present, but also those implicated by actions in that arena. The first and primary opposition to the diagnosis can from the apa"s own. } three arenas of conflict that produced three different llpdds. Dispute of ownership between gynecologists and psychiatrists. } this means that mental health care workers are forced to recognize and use it. Questioned the need for doctors at all: in constructing pms as a psychiatric disorder, the apa was successful in extending its professional boundaries on three fronts.