title: Suicidal tendencies: detection and evaluation.
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.
authors.affiliation: Basel University Psychiatric Hospital, Switzerland.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Pöldinger
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Holsboer-Trachsler
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D010552:Personality Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D000092864:Suicide Prevention