The World Psychiatric Asociation has rcently launched its institutional program "Psychiatry for the Person", with the aim to indroduce a more subjectivistic and individ centred approach in diagnosing, treating and monitoring psychiatric disorders as human conditions.

Suicide prevention "for the person" seems here to be one of the most important fields in applying these principles. The suicididal person is influenced by his/her genetic predisposition and personality traits, his/her specific psychiatric disorder or dysfunction in biological and social framework, his/her individual psychosocial and existential general and acute life circumstances and exists in a concrete lifethreatening situation.

This together with different grades of competenc or incompetency, decompensation or functional break downs influences the individuals capacity to cope with the suicidal situation and has to be encounterersd with in an individual and even cultural sensitive suicide preventive ad-hoc approach.

Concrete examples will be given outgoing from a description of depressive and psychotic persons in aspecific suicidal situation and strategies will be described.