title: [Psychological crises and the urban environment].
abstract: The influence of urbanization of psychic crises of the individuals was investigated in this paper. The investigation was performed in the framework of telephone services intended for giving help to people drawing to a crisis. These services are as follows: "Tele-apel" in Belgrade, "Klic v duŝevni stiski" in Ljubljana, "SOS telephone" in Subotica and "Tele-apel" in Sarajevo. The introductory part of this paper dealt with the short history of the development of the idea concerning the influence of social environment on psychic health and the appearance of crises. The most frequent urban and other social factors which brought about the psychic health disturbances were cited. Summing up the results of the investigation in all four services, the author put forward the ten most frequent actual problems which were responsible for the appearance of crises in investigated persons, such as: health problems, loneliness, partner problems, marital and familial problems, suicidal crises, problems between parents and children, alcohol as a problem, sexual problems, tablets and drugs as a problem and the loss of an important person. The influence of the urbanization factor is particularly emphasized in the appearance of loneliness, partner problems, marital and familial problems, suicidal crises, health problems, problems arising between parents and children as well as in sexual problems.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Curcić
mesh_terms: D003419:Crisis Intervention; D015277:Hotlines; D006801:Humans; D014505:Urban Population; D015022:Yugoslavia
vernacular_title: Psihicke krize i urbana sredina.