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The overall accepted rules established by the Swiss federal government are to the effect that insurance companies must pay for psychotherapy (including psychoanalysis) with two weekly sessions over three years and thereafter 1 weekly session for an additional 3 years. As far as medical psychotherapy is concerned, there is no legal limitation as to who is entitled to perform psychotherapy, although medical health legislations vary from canton to canton. The situation is different with non-medical psychotherapy which, for the time being, is dependent on cantonal legislation. My comment includes the question of the effectiveness of various schools of psychotherapy, a controversy that has a worldwide impact. It tends with a short summary of Daseinsanalytic therapy.