that may be the confusion we here in New York are using the book DSM IV TR not its previous standards of DSM IV. the TR stands for Text Revised which means what was in the IV edition has been updated, changed revised to reflect the current standards...

in may the DSM terms,vocabulary diagnostics will change again. we will then be going according to the way the DSM 5 calls symptoms and disorders here in New York.

also here in the USA not all states use the same terms, vocabulary for mental disorders and even in the same state sometimes the vocabulary is different.. those examples I gave you about what you call psychogenic seizures are called is here with in the state of new york.

I bet if you ask around to all the treatment providers in your state using the same word you will get a whole host of answers based on that treatment providers own understanding of the word, and other factors and may even come up with treatment providers who use laymans terms with their clients that may not understand nor have a DSM to look at to look up that disorder..

I know many people up state who only have 8th or 9th grade education that if you tell them psychogenic seizures the first thing they do is panic and think a treatment provider is calling them psycho (crazy).

we were taught in our training its a good thing to know the technical terms for things but to approach talking about the problems with the patients/cleints on their level of understanding, not throw medical/mental health "jargon" around scaring the crap out of people,

kind of like some people prefer the term MPD and others the term DID. or some people prefer the term counselor instead of the word therapist...
they are the same thing its just that treatment providers here where I am talk with their clients on the level ground not over their heads and bury them in medical/mental terms. heck a majority of my older clients here still call menopause things like "the change" and their monthy cycle "the curse" "a visit from Aunt Martha" and other simplier terms instead of saying the clinically correct term of "menstruation cycle."

here we meet our clients at their own levels of understanding/education/ culture.....

so we dont call it psychogenic seizures but at least our clients can understand us and dont leave the office falling apart and panicked thinking we are calling them crazy..

like I said in my profile the words I use dont always fit in with the terms that others here on psych central use. lol

we are definitely a diverse crowd here in psych central..with all our different locations, different treatment providers, different religions,...different what ever and regardless of what something is called we can always find someone who knows what we are talking about.