The authors discuss the semiological and clinical characteristics of pseudoseizures and the role of unconscious psychological contents in the genesis of these phenomena. Pseudoseizures are relatively frequent clinical conditions in epilepsy centers and in psychiatric emergency services.
The differential diagnosis of patients showing seizures or pseudoseizures is not always an easy task, and demands knowledge about specific semiological symptoms of epileptic events and conversive episodes.
Conversive disorders; pseudoseizures; hysteria; semiology