*Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. priyeshr18@gmail.com
**Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
***Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
****Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
*****Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
Psychogenic Non-Epileptic seizures (PNES) are epilepsy like episodes which have an emotional rather than organic origin. PNES is thought as a result of tension/distress which piles up in individual and shows physical symptoms in form of seizures. Individuals with PNES can neither process, perceive or communicate their emotional problem nor modulate their emotional states in turn developing faulty attachement style. Present study aimed at examining problem in emotion identification, attachment and emotional regulation among epilepsy and PNES patient group. For this purpose 30 participants were selected with well documented PNES (n= 15) and epilepsy (n=15) which were examined with Alexithymia (Toronto Alexithymia Scale), attachment (Relationship Scale questionnaire) and emotional dysregulation (Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale) and responses were obtained on three separate administration. Mean scores, standard deviation and ttest was computed. Result shows that there was a significant difference between PNES and epileptic patients group, were PNES patients were more Alexithymic, less emotionally regulated and have faulty attachement style. And professional should consider it during diagnosis and treatment of PNES.
Etiology, seizures, psychiatric, epilepsy, alexithymia, emotional Regulation
