[Inpatient social psychiatric crisis intervention exemplified by the crisis intervention center of the Social Psychiatric University Clinic of Bern].

With a case-history of a puerperic psychosis we describe the crisis-interventions-technique in six steps used in our 16-bed, socio-psychiatric ward in the city of Berne at a general hospital. Out of more than 5 years of work we illustrate one year with client-data, working-methods and statistical results. With such a ward in the community, embedded in a complete net of socio-psychiatric institutions, we can treat quite serious psychosocial crisis adequately and in relatively short time.