Intensive psychiatric care is a type of psychiatric treatment of patients conducted in a closed psychiatric ward, and engages the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric emergencies. Includes a comprehensive level of care, 24-hour observation, and the possibility of physical restraint and isolation of patients in the event of loss of capacity for self-control. Psychiatric disorders treated in such departments are deteriorating mental state within the various mental disorders. The most common emergencies that require intensive psychiatric care are suicide, auto and hetero aggressiveness and states of crisis. Examination of the patient includes medical history, heteroanamnesis, description of psychiatric status, general and neurological examination, laboratory tests, and sometimes CT and MRI of the brain. In order to take care of urgent psychiatric patients in use is pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy (brief, individual dynamically oriented, ventilation, debriefing, supportive and family psychotherapy), and sometimes physical restraint and isolation of patients in isolation room because of possible danger to himself and / or the environment. The principal members of the medical team are psychiatrists, nurses and technicians who are highly qualified and trained in clinical psychiatry emergency and will immediately determine procedure, diagnosis and treatment of the patient. Time spent in psychiatric intensive care unit varies, but is usually from 2-6 days. By calming the acute clinical picture which is the reason for admission to such department, the patient is transferred to other psychiatric wards in accordance with its general mental and physical condition and psychiatric diagnosis. Although it is generally thought that the procedures for intensive psychiatric care is sometimes too hard or beyond the competence of personnel working in such departments, they are medically necessary and justified.