Stephanie Howlett, Specialist Psychotherapy Manager at the Department of Neurology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield has over the last 8 years developed an emotional processing therapy group programme for patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures aimed at helping them develop more effective interpersonal and emotional processing patterns. Research projects with Professor Markus Reuber, Barbora Novakova and Isobel Williams at the Academic Neurology Unit, University of Sheffield using the Emotional Processing Scale include evaluating the effectiveness of Stephanie’s Emotional Processing Therapy Programme and explorations of emotions in PNES using the Emotional Processing Scale . Here is;

  recent powerpoint presentation on the effectiveness of the emotional processing therapy programme

  A journal article on the model on which the therapy was based.

  And a copy of the article Emotion Processing and psychogenic non-epileptic seizures: a cross-sectional comparison of patients and healthy controls.