[Disorders and difficulties in the psychosocial adaptation of epileptics]

Disturbances of and difficulties in psychosocial adaptation were analysed in 63 epileptics (with generalized convulsions and partial complex seizures) and in 31 subjects without diseases of the central nervous system (control group). The disturbances of adaptation were not more frequent in epileptics than in controls. On the other hand, it was observed that patients with partial complex seizures constituted a group non-homologous with respect to the degree of difficulties in functioning (disturbances and difficulties) which was probably due to their greater dependence on the conditions of realization of their psychosocial needs in relation to healthy subjects and patients with generalized seizures.