Dissociative seizures (DS), also known as functional or sychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES), can easily be mistaken for epileptic seizures (ES) [1,2]. The idea to use Conversation Analysis to distinguish DS from ES was initially generated in a collaboration between clinicians at the Bethel Epilepsy Center and researchers at the University of Bielefeld in 1999 [3]. At this point the approach was purely qualitative. Subsequently, the method was developed further in Bethel [4] and in the United Kingdom [5–8].
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