Proceed correctly in exceptional situations - the book provides the necessary knowledge. A top-class team of authors gives diagnostic and therapeutic instructions. Conducting discussions in emergency psychiatry and crisis intervention, medication, and forensic questions in emergency decisions. Concrete procedures for the most important syndromes and for various patient groups, e.g., older patients, children and adolescents, the less gifted, AIDS patients, patients in general hospitals. Procedures for important syndromes, psychiatric clinical pictures, and for special problem areas, e.g., adverse drug reactions, simulation, stalking, patients with frequent emergency consultations, homelessness. Legal issues in emergency decisions, common mistakes, rules of conduct. Forensic issues in Germany, Austria, and Germany.