“…Like people suffering from other functional somatic symptoms, patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures are perhaps best described by a multidimensional approach [87]. Such an approach can accommodate the current evidence on the aetiology of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures by incorporating biographical factors (like childhood trauma, abuse, life events), relevant biological features (like sex, presence of learning disability), psychological features (like poor coping styles, maladaptive personality, the tendency to express psychological distress in a somatic fashion or to dissociate), "psychiatric" or "neurological" co-morbidity (like depression, anxiety or epilepsy) and social factors (like a disturbed family environment, financial insecurity) [88,89].…”