[Compulsory psychiatric drug therapy in Switzerland--legislation and reality exemplified by a few clinical cases].

We discuss the existing or desired legal basis for forced medical treatment in psychiatry, in the light of supranational, international and Swiss law. Four situations in which forced medical treatment may occur are described and illustrated with case reports. A distinction is drawn between treatment against a destructive will, treatment against lack of will, treatment against an antisocial will, and long-term treatment against a chronic destructive will.

[Qulerulousness--a disappearing psychopathologic behavioral disorder?].

Compulsive Querulousness (CQ) is a term for behaviour characterised by an exaggerated feeling of righteousness and is not a specific ingredient of any particular psychiatric illness. CQ was well represented in psychiatric literature until the year 1960 both in textbooks and in single-case studies, but has disappeared from clinical psychiatric interest in the last 30 years. In the first part of our study we present the syndrome in its various facets (epidemiology, aetiology, categorisation, symptoms, therapy).

[Folie à deux. Review of the literature and an unusual case].

We present a review of the concept's history and discuss different possible varieties of "folie à deux". Following this we report the case of a couple whose "folie à deux" has lasted for ten years. They have four of their own children and three further children from the husband's first marriage.