ABSTRACT
No claim is made that the typical case of idiopathic epilepsy is subject to psychological cure, though each case which I have personally investigated has shown a variable degree of psychogenic factors in the production of fits. A matter which I think is commonly missed or ignored by neurologists is the fact that even the typical epileptic can be, and often is, subject to psychological tensions which, if not directly responsible for the origin and continuation of his fits, invariably have some influence upon their frequency and severity. But apart altogether from the symptoms of epilepsy itself, such patients are often suffering from a concurrent psychoneurosis more apt to be ignored by doctor and neurologist alike on account of the fact that they have the major epileptic symptom.
