What is it like to receive a diagnosis of nonepileptic seizures?

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 508-515

  Thompson, Rebecca ^a   Isaac, Claire L ^a   Rowse, Georgina ^a   Tooth, Claire L ^b   Reuber, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL HALLAMSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communication; Conversion; Diagnosis; Dissociation; Interpretative phenomenological analysis; Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NARRATIVE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHENOMENOLOGY; PSEUDOEPILEPTIC SEIZURE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; COMMUNICATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENTS; SEIZURES; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 63049122070     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2008.12.014     Document Type: Article

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