Narcissistic tendency seems to prevail among young people in modern society and has apparently influenced on many various aspects of human relationship. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between the narcissistic personality and family relationship.

　Japanese versions of Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI), family communication scale, family satisfaction scale, and Cattel’s Anxiety Scale were administered to 56 male and 65 female college students.

　The remarkable results were as follows.

　1. The data of NPI was factor-analyzed, and five factors were found.

　(1) sense of superiority and ability,

　(2) self-publicity,

　(3) self-conceit,

　(4) egoism,

　(5) nervousness to others’ evaluation of self.

　The internal consistency of NPI was found to be at the sufficient level.

　2. Male students’ scores of NPI and its sub-scales indicated higher than female students’ scores. And the eldest childs’ scores of NPI indicated higher than the others.

　3. There was significant negative relation between anxiety and sense of superiority and ability, but significant positive relation was found between anxiety and egoism. Therefore, it is suggested that the relation between anxiety and narcissistic personality is complex and ambivalent. And by path-analysis, the direct and indirect influence of narcissistic personality on family satisfaction were found. In indirect influence paths, anxiety and family communication acted as parameters.

　When we introduce a therapeutic task to the client family, we sometimes feel sorry it isn’t done successfully as we or the family expects. The atmosphic state of affairs of its family’s own, such as the layouts of furniture or usual location of each person at home, prevents the task from being done well.

　So manipulating for its home environment is thought to have good effect on family dynamism. A case of mother-child adhesion for example, often shows that there are no clear bounderies between mother’s bed or bedroom and her child’s even if her child has grown older, more than ten years old.

　In case we have family interviews at client’s home, these distorted situations are observed visually in the various forms.

　This paper tells how to use the manipulation as the assistance under the family task.

　The present paper is intended to offer stronger grounds to validity of Mizushima’s (1986) "schematic projective technique". For this purpose, the relations between mother’s image and dependence on mother and "schema" were examined through two studys.

　Three factorical indicator of "schema" were found by principal component analysis ((1) distance from core of self to mother-card, (2) degree of openness of frame of self, and (3) gradient of frame of self). Advocation of validity of this technique was justified by (a) significant negative relation between core-card distance and the degree of positive feelings to mother or dependence on mother, (b) significant positive relation between the degree of openness of self and receptive feelings to mother, and (c) the tendency that subjects who had good relation to mother were likely to prefer "close-distance and wide-openness schema".

　The aim of this paper is to present the use of family role-play, for the purpose of training of the family therapists. In the small group situation of 8-10 trainees, the author tried several training workshops, and found some possibility of utilizing family role-play for the training analysis and skill development of family therapists.

　In this paper, the use of family role-play for the purpose of training analysis of the therapists is introduced. The contents includes:

　(1) framework of the training

　(2) practice of family role-play in the workshop situation

　(3) presentation of extracts from the practice

　(4) effective use of the family role-play as training analysis.

　The author also considers the place of this training in the whole program of the family therapists training.

　The problem of the trainer-training of the family role-play leader is indicated.

　This paper presents a family therapy approach to the treatment of school refusal. A detailed case report of a 29-session treatment utilizing Augmented Feedback Technique (AFT) designed to change the mother-son system is presented. A therapist tried to keep the mother-son system which had been in double-bind in statu quo at the initial stage. Then, he gradually introduced AFT in interviewing them. At the critical point of therapeutic process, he told them to continue their confrontation without his mediation. When they stuck in impasse, he encouraged them to step in each other’s inner feeling. They began to separate, and the son started to go to school soon after that session. At one year follow-up, the son was symptom free. Relationship factors, technical interventions, and stylistic aspects of the therapy are discussed.

　Family therapy for the family with a school refusal (Age 12, male) was administrated. As a result, boy’s syndrome was improved. Consensas Rorschach Test (CRT) was adiministrated twice before (S1) and after (S2) family therapy. And change of communication proccess within the family through verbal expression was compared between S1 and S2.

　Results are as follows,

1. Verbal expression in S2, number of the utterance increase and speech of members continue much more.

2. In the content of the utterance in S2, "rejection" "command" and "question" (negative expression ) are decreased, and "agreement" "emphasis" and" explanation" (positive exoretion ) are increased.

3. Reasonable consensus in the family have made up in S2.

4. In S1, father intends to get leadership, gets rejection from IP and fails to get leadership finally. However rejection from IP disappeared in S2.

5. Family does not intend consistent their opinion each other in S1, but family change to get have communication with humor each other S2.

　As mentioned above, we can conclude that CRT is one of effective methods to understand family interaction and also one of measure of therapy.

　Finally, ①we have to further investigate the validity and reliability of CRT. ②we have to investigate the aspect of non-verbal expression.