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Psychiatry in Switzerland

Part of: BJPsych International Country Profiles Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Dan Georgescu
Dan Georgescu*
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Department of Old Age Psychiatry, Königsfelden Hospital, Brugg, Switzerland, email [email protected]
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Switzerland - officially the Swiss Confederation - is a federal republic situated in central Europe. It covers an area of 41 287 km2 and has a population of just over 7 600 000. Switzerland consists of 26 federated states, of which 20 are called cantons and 6 are called half-cantons. German, French and Italian are Switzerland's major and official languages.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , July 2009 , pp. 64 - 66
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