[Psychiatric crises situations within the scope of the acute hospital]

In the last decades more and more community psychiatric services have been established. When such services work in close cooperation with a general hospital new and interesting possibilities of interventions are possible. Closeness with hospital physicians can improve the image of psychiatry among physicians as well as the general population. This paper reports about experiences made in a newly established psychiatric service based in a general hospital of 300 beds, focussing on the possible interventions in acute psychiatric crises.