Crisis (disambiguation)

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A crisis is a traumatic or stressful change for a person, or an unstable and dangerous situation for a society.

Crisis may refer to:

Film:

• Crisis (1939 film), a documentary about the 1938 Sudeten Crisis
• Crisis (1946 film), a film directed by Ingmar Bergman
• Crisis (1950 film), a film directed by Richard Brooks

Literature:

• The Crisis, the journal of the NAACP
• Crisis (novel), a novel by Robin Cook

Comics:

• Crisis (comic), a British comic
• Crisis on Infinite Earths, a crossover event spanning the DC comics multiverse.

Music:

• Crisis, a female-fronted American hardcore/metal band.
• Crisis (album), an album by Alexisonfire
• Crisis (Deadweights album)
• Crisis (British band), a punk rock group
• Crisis? What Crisis?, an album by Supertramp
• "Crisis", a song by Fear Factory from Soul of a New Machine

Philosophy:

• Die Krisis der europäischen Wissenschaften und die transzentale Phänomenologie: Eine Einleitung in die phänomenologische Philosophie (1936, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy), a book by Edmund Husserl.

Psychology:

• Existential crisis, when a person doubts if his or her existence has a purpose
• Identity crisis (psychology)
• Mid-life crisis, several issues that confront some people from 40-55
  • Quarter-life crisis, a recently coined similar term for 20-30 year olds
• Suicidal crisis

Other:

• Crisis (charity) (formerly Crisis at Christmas), a British charity

See also:

• The electron beam generator CRYSIS
• The video game Crysis

• Chinese translation of crisis — popular misconception that "crisis" is translated "danger"+"opportunity"
• critical — adjective of crisis
• emergency
• climax