In defense of pseudoseizure

Phillip R. Slavney

doi:10.1016/0163-8343(94)90001-9

In defense of pseudoseizure

Phillip R. Slavney

School of Medicine

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There continues to be disagreement over the best term for behavior that simulates an epileptic seizure. In the author's view, pseudoseizure is the most accurate of the expressions currently in use, and fears about its potentially damaging effects are unfounded. Even pseudoseizure, however, fails to convey the behavioral nature of the phenomenon in question, for it identifies what the problem is not, rather than what it is.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	243-245
Number of pages	3
Journal	General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume	16
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0163-8343(94)90001-9
State	Published - Jul 1994

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