Post-traumatic stress and relationships to coping and alexithymia in patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures

The study revealed elevated alexithymia and use of potentially more maladaptive emotion-focused coping strategies among patients with PNES and comorbid PTSD. These findings highlight discrete areas to target in treatment depending on comorbid symptomatology, and suggests that PNES, which is often regarded as a homogeneous entity, appears to encompass distinct subgroups.