Citation

Pöldinger W, Holsboer-Trachsler E. Crisis 1990; 11(2): 11-21.

Affiliation

Basel University Psychiatric Hospital, Switzerland.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, International Association for Suicide Prevention, Publisher Hogrefe Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2076611

Abstract

Initially we differentiate a simple psychosocial crisis from a psychiatric crisis; the former is usually a non-pathological phenomenon, which may result in a pathological development. As one critical assumption, we consider suicidal potential. After discussing the phenomena of suicide and attempted suicide, the problem of suicide and family is emphasized in regard to biological-genetic and psychosocial aspects. Finally, we refer to prophylactic-therapeutic interventions for psychosocial crisis and manifest suicidal tendency.

Language: en