title: [Confidence and fear of the doctor when meeting the suicidal patient (author's transl)].
abstract: In the encounter with the suicidal patient, the doctor enters a field of emotional high tension. He seeks to protect himself against the fear which agressive and destructive tendencies arouse in him by measures which are, in many respects, questionable. The doctor can only find real confidence when faced with a suicidal patient if he perceives his own insecurity and fears. Consequently the treatment of the suicidal patient becomes a permanent balancing act. In describing here three important polarities an attempt is made to make this risk of the attitude of suspense and the therapeutic possibilities arising from it intelligible.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression; D001007:Anxiety; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D000092864:Suicide Prevention
vernacular_title: Sicherheit und Angst des Arztes in der Begegnung mit dem suizidalen Patienten