Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0065267

Zusammenfassung

Preventing suicides is one of the concerns of modernity. The World Health Organization considers the statistics of suicides an inverse coefficient of a nation's mental health. Telephone helplines-"telephones of trust"-emerged in the second half of the twentieth century as modern institutions of empathy in response to an acute need to provide emotional support for suicidal or potentially suicidal people struggling with complicated personal situations. These helplines were an intimate yet anonymous channel of communication for ordinary people that enabled them to discuss their difficult ...