Editing Talk:Psychogenic non-epileptic seizure (section)

== Removal of unsupported claims in Treatment section ==

There was some question about my edit [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Psychogenic_non-epileptic_seizures&diff=275989814&oldid=274424120 here]. Another editor claimed on my user page that:

: [The edit] removed information that was referenced properly.

The claims were not referenced properly. The claims are followed by references which do not support the claims at all.

For example, take the reference from the mayo clinic website. It says this about treatment:

: Seeing a psychologist or professional counselor can help treat symptoms of conversion disorder and prevent it from coming back. This can be especially helpful if you have anxiety, a mood disorder such as depression or other mental health issues.

That does not support the superiority of CBT over insight therapy for this condition. In fact, it does not even mention either CBT or insight therapy.

The other references are even less related to the claims. Most of the references either do not mention CBT or do not mention PNES. One of the references is a general criticism of psychotherapy research and has nothing to do with this topic. Another reference has a malformed URL and goes nowhere.

The only reference which has any support at all for the claims made was [http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1803 here]. However, that reference only includes support in the "user comments" section at the bottom of the article, in which anonymous users wrote comments like "CBT worked for me" and so on. That is not an acceptable reference for the claims made, since user comments are not reliable according to [[WP:RS]].

When I did a quick search of pubmed, I found little support for the claims which I deleted. I found exactly one study which supported CBT for this condition: {{PMID|18395473}}. That study does not compare the effectiveness of CBT versus insight therapy for this condition.
[[User:Twerges|Twerges]] ([[User talk:Twerges|talk]]) 19:28, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

::Thank you for the clarification. I confess I did not go to the original soruces to verify that they stated what they were being used to support. My oversight, sorry and thanks. --[[User:PaulWicks|PaulWicks]] ([[User talk:PaulWicks|talk]]) 19:38, 5 April 2009 (UTC)