For patients whose seizures are not controlled by medication alone,
psychotherapeutic intervention can sometimes play a useful adjunctive role
in both differential diagnosis and treatment. Diagnostic issues include the
differentiation between neurogenic and hysterical seizures as well as the
delineation of the possible role of psychogenic stress in triggering
neurogenic seizures. Therapeutic considerations focus on the alleviation of
precipitating stresses as well as the development of a sense of mastery in
the patient.
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