[Pilot Data from the Evaluation of an Integrative Body Psychotherapy Program for Patients with Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures].

[Pilot Data from the Evaluation of an Integrative Body Psychotherapy Program for Patients with Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures]. Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol. 2020 Apr 30;: Authors: Senf-Beckenbach P, Hinkelmann K, Hoheisel M, Devine J, Rose M Abstract Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) occur in the context of various diseases. Therefore, PNES patients represent a heterogeneous group with different causative disorders. The etiology is still poorly understood. Previous concepts assume an increased rate of trauma disorders in PNES, which has been proven several times by previous studies 1 2. The clinical picture is threatening, which means that those affected often receive intensive care measures without benefiting from them 3. PNES patients accumulate especially in epilepsy centers, since a diagnostic differentiation from epileptic seizures is possible at those specialized centers. Often, the transition from making the diagnosis in epilepsy centers to follow-up treatment in psychosomatic/psychiatric settings is difficult. A reason could be that patients and practitioners are often involved in somatic disease concepts, which might be caused by the threatening clinical picture of PNES 28. Due to this difficulties, a special outpatient clinic was set up at the Charité Berlin for people with dissociative seizures, which settles in the transition from neurology to psychosomatics and works as a cooperation project 27. Out of ...
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