Editing Talk:Psychogenic non-epileptic seizure (section)

== Revert to recent edit. ==

A recent edit included the following text, which I've reverted.  Discussion follows:

<blockquote>In the past the patient with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures was thought to have a history of childhood physical abuse or sexual abuse or other severe emotional trauma. Treatment, with cognitive therapy or behavioral therapy, would be focused on strategies to recognize the onset of the seizures and use techniques to abort them, or to interrupt the stimulus-response pathway that produces them.<p>

This is now largely discredited with only a few Psychiatrists willing to pursue this line. These tend to be non-organic such as the leading exponent Douglas Turkington who has led research into the abuse causes of seizures. Turkington holds that even though the patient and their family may not remember the abuse this is because the abuse is repressed (see Freud and the unconscious). As no empirical proof can be provided for this theory other specialists regard such theories as pseudo-science.<p>

This is even more true given the fact that most epilepsy specialists recognise that a) some seizures, especially complex frontal lobe, are very hard to diagnose b) respone to medication is no indication of the pseudo nature of the seizure as patients diagnosed with epilepsy frequently do not respond to treatment.</blockquote>

* "In the past, the patient with PNES was thought to have a history of childhood physical or sexual abuse."  That's not what this paragraph, which I wrote, originally said.  It said that such patients were '''often''' found to '''give''' such a history.  That's still true, and I've reverted it to say "sometimes found to give such a history."  Mangling text - sourced text, no less - to distort its meaning and then rebutting it is poor editing form, and I request that you not do so in the future.

* According to Betts, 1997, in EPILEPSY: A COMPREHENSIVE TEXTBOOK, (see article for reference) cognitive behavioral therapy is still the mainstay of treatment technique.  If you are going to cite a different theory, such as Mr Turkington's, please provide a [[WP:V|verifiable]] reference published by a reputable source.

* The paragraph about frontal lobe seizures is not relevant to an article section about the treatment of non-epileptic seizures.  Non-epileptic seizures are not caused by epilepsy.  If you wish to assert, in an article called 'Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures,' that non-epileptic seizures are caused by epilepsy, I suggest creating a section called 'Criticism' or 'Controversy' and placing your assertions there.  If the assertions are not verifiably referenced, they will be removed.

[[User:Ikkyu2|<span style="color:#2000C0;">ikkyu2</span>]] ([[User_talk:Ikkyu2|<span style="color:#00FF00;">talk</span>]]) 19:43, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

:Also, honestly, I can't understand how editors to this page can use the term '''pseudoseizures''', right after the introduction to the article asserts that that term should never be used.  I encourage people thinking of editing the article to read it first.  If you're going to write paragraphs about pseudoseizures, at least delete the part where the article admonishes readers never to use the term. [[User:Ikkyu2|<span style="color:#2000C0;">ikkyu2</span>]] ([[User_talk:Ikkyu2|<span style="color:#00FF00;">talk</span>]]) 03:37, 17 February 2006 (UTC)