Psychiatry was introduced into Greece in the second half of the nineteenth
century. It developed as a medical specialty between 1880-1930. The
fundamental characteristics of psychiatry in Greece are: (a) the discontinuity
in the introduction of scientific knowledge; (b) the important position of the
private clinics; (c) the delayed organization of the public sector.
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