PSYCHIATRIC STUDY OF PATIENTS WITH PSYCHOMOTOR SEIZURES

Abstract

A number of characteristic features were found in a study of 11 patients with "psychomotor epilepsy." These were a traumatic early history, a struggle with unresolved conflicts centering around dependency needs, easily aroused rage and destructive impulses which were poorly integrated, lability of affect, an impoverishment of the ego from excessive repression, strong tendencies to deny and project, and a resulting physiologic and psychologic rigidity manifested in everyday thinking and acting.