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Psychosomatic Medicine 9:137-139 (1947)
© 1947 American Psychosomatic Society

A Case of Co-Existence of Idiopathic Epileptic and Psychogenic Convulsions

BLAISE PASQUARELLI M.D.1 and LEOPOLD BELLAK M. A., M.D.2

1 Now Psychiatry (Assistant Psychiatrist), USPHS, Federal Reformatory, Chillicothe, Ohio
2 Now Associate in Psychiatry, New York Medical College, and Assistant Psychiatrist, Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals, New York City

A case has been presented in which an apparently genuine idiopathic cerebral dysrhythmia with manifest convulsive disorders existed ever since the age of 4 or 5 (with an unclarified attack of "influenza" at that time). For the past two and onehalf years this disorder existed concomitantly with convulsions of a different pattern which started with an emotional trauma and were apparently of an hysterical nature. Hysterical convulsions could be induced and stopped under hypnosis and genuine epileptic seizures produced at night on post-hypnotic orders. A close relationship between the two disorders was apparent.

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St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, D. C.






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