title: [Psychiatric significance of stalking].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To provide an overview on the psychiatric significance of stalking and the implications for the health care system.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Stalking is a widespread phenomenon and can result in significant health care problems.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In the future physicians will have to deal with this problem in a professional manner.
authors.affiliation: Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Mannheim. dressing@as200.zi-mannheim.de
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dressing
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gass
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kühner
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Habermeyer
mesh_terms: D003415:Crime / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003702:Delusions / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009770:Obsessive Behavior / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D017406:Sexual Harassment / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data