Psychogenic seizures, sometimes called PNES (psychogenic non epileptic seizures), are very real events. Very rarely is it found that someone is faking them.

They're often associated with trauma, but that doesn't mean they're necessarily caused by it. They're also correlated with certain kinds of organic brain disease, such as concussion.

Here's some information that you may find helpful.
http://www.currentpsychiatry.com/200...04_Mathews.asp
http://www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/sei...ychogenic.html

From a patient's perspective:
http://www.growingstrong.org/epilepsy/psych.html

30% of epileptics who have seizure-EEG monitoring turn out to have non-epileptic seizures. Without that monitoring, no one would have known otherwise.

Lar