Voices in the corpus

Katharina Dalton

Physician; named premenstrual syndrome and pioneered progesterone therapy·1916–2004

British physician who first described and named premenstrual syndrome and developed progesterone therapy for PMS and postnatal depression. Her clinical writing, including The Premenstrual Syndrome and Progesterone Therapy, anchors the bioenergetic view of progesterone as a protective, anti-stress steroid.