Psychiatry in Switzerland

Consultation-liaison psychiatry: a new psychiatric subspecialty in Switzerland.

Although psychiatry has a long tradition in Switzerland, C–L psychiatry is a newcomer. The continuous reduction in recent years of the number of beds in psychiatric hospitals favored the development of C–L services. The results of a survey of C–L psychiatry showed that in Switzerland C–L services are provided in general hospitals, even in the small and rural ones [1]. An important step was achi...

Pharmacogenomics approach in psychiatry disorders

Psychiatric disorders are important health issues in the world, and their management is facing some serious challenges. Drugs that are widely used in the treatment of psychiatric disorders, including antidepressants, antipsychotics, and mood stabilizers, are often associated with many side effects and are adequately effective only in a small proportion of patients. Many factors, including genet...

History of Contemporary Cultural Psychiatry in Iran:

Cultural psychiatry is one of the relatively new trends in psychiatry that has received much attention today. During the last century, many Iranian psychiatrists have taken steps to introduce various aspects of cultural psychiatry from the field of epidemiology to the cultural conceptualization of psychiatric disorders. This article tries to refer to the history of contemporary cultural psychia...

Inquiries in Psychiatry the State of Psychiatry

forensic psychiatry in iran

in iran, department of forensic psychiatry is one of the special units of legal medicine organization concerned with individuals who demonstrate psychological and psychiatric problems. the duties of forensic psychiatrists in the department are, performing psychiatric examinations and determining mental competence of two major groups of referrals: individuals who are involved in a legal problem ...