“Saying good-bye” is a T・A Gestalt technique used for resolving an unfinished business (hanging on situation) with a dead or separated loved one. It can be also applied as a tool to help a neurotic patient to become more autonomous, especially in family relations context.

　　This case of a neurotic woman with psychosomatic symptoms illustrate an interesting application of this technique. The therapist incidentally got a chance to make intervention to the patient's hanging on situation with her grand-mothoer and successfully implemented "Saying good-bye" to the grand-mother.

　　The resultp was good. The symptoms decreased and the patient reported that she gaind interpersonal competence. The thrapeutic process is discussed from the view point of promoting the autonomy of the patient.

　　The purpose of this study was to describe the images of the nature and the natural fields, and to investigate the actual condition of the playing experiences in the natural fields of the young men and women living in the big cities.

　　460 university and college students were administered a questionnaire including the measures of images of the nature and the natural fields, playing experiences in the natural fields, and the principle of the home discipline in their early childhood.

　　The results were as follows

　　1. The average images of the nature and the natural fields (river, lake, sea, woods, open fields) were generally positive. The image of the open fields was most positive of the five natural fields.

　　2. The playing experiences in the natural fields of the subjects were very poor.

　　3. A positive correlation was found between the playing experiences in the natural fields and the images of the nature and the natural fields. That is, the more playing experiences in the natural fields one had had, the more positive images of the nature and the natural fields one showed.

　　4. The rich playing experiences in the each natural field were positively correlated with the positive images of the same natural field respectively.

　　5. The principle of the home discipline in ones early childhood to enrich the playing experiences in the natural fields was correlated with his positive images of the nature.

　As mentioned above, the playing experiences in the natural fields were very important to improve the images of the nature and the natural fields, and were very poor among the young men and women living in the big cities. Consequently, promoting the playing experiences in the natural fields, especially through the home discipline in the early childhood, is very important from the viewpoint of environmental education.

　　FACES Ⅲ was developed to measure the Circumplex's central dimensions based on curvilinear hypothesis. But a study of FACES Ⅲ original version by Green et al. (1991) failed to confirm the hypothesized curvilinear relationship.

　　The present study investigates reliability of the FACES Ⅲ Japanese version, and concurrent validity of this instrument and the curvilinear hypothesis of family functionings with a sumpie of college students’ families (N=190).

　　The lack of support for curvilinear hypothesis is explained by following findings for the two FACES Ⅲ subscales. The factoral analytic structure of the adaptability subscale was unstable, but the cohesion subscale had high internal consistency and similar construction to the original cohesion items. The results compared the family types that comprised each of three major family categories on the family health scale and evaluation of family relations (satisfaction, troublesome, and interest) did not support the curvilinear hypothesis. Better-functioning families did not cluster in the center of the Circumplex. Rather scores on each of the family health scale and evaluation of family relations were more positive for family types on the right side than on the left side of the Circumplex. There was a linear relationship between family health scale and evaluation of family relations and the cohesion subscale. Implications of these findings for the use of the FACESⅢ Japanese version and for the Olson's Circumplex Model were discussed.