Forensic Psychiatry in Switzerland

Abstract

Forensic Psychiatry, like political, legal, esthetic, and oftentimes, religious practices, is part of the selfrealizationof a nation. In this way, different countries arrived at different and varying solutions to social problems. Although Switzerland is a small state (5.27 million people per 41,300 square kilometers) in the heart of Europe, she, nevertheless has succeeded in going her own way in Forensic Psychiatry.