Group psychotherapy in prison often evokes very strong resistance to the prisoners. We had already studied the type of the resistance by prisoners in early stage of group psychotherapy and the factors affecting the resistance (Jap. J. Crim. Psychol. Vol. 11, No. 2, 1976).

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between the content of all resistances including the early stage and the process of group psychotherapy. Our hypothesis in this study is as follows.

The contents of resistance depend on the process of group psychotherapy, and the contents of the subject which do not mean resistance (the subject in this paper always means subject excluding resistance) depend on the change of the resistance. That is, the process of group psychotherapy make progress such as resistance I→subject I→resistance Ⅱ→subject Ⅱ→resistance Ⅲ→subject Ⅲ. (I～Ⅲ show the level of resistance and subject, and level Ⅲ means the most progressive stage of resistance or subject in group psychotherapy). We rated all the process of the group psychotherapy by these levels.

The 34 prisoners of this study consist of 2 group psychotherapy members from Hachiohji Medical Prison. The group psychotherapy administrated for 2 years by once a week for this study. A group consists of 2 therapists and 8-10 prisoners. And the system of the group psychotherapy is open.

Main Results :

By analizing all the process of our group psychotherapy, following 6 periods are found out.

1st period : the period of resistance I appeared in early stage of therapy.

2st period : the developing period from resistance Ⅱ via subject I to subject Ⅱ.

3rd period : the unstable period where the different levels of resistance and subject are appeared at random.

4th period : the period of re-developing from resistance Ⅱ via subject I to subject II.

5th period : the period of resistance Ⅲ.

6th period : the stable period of subject Ⅲ after resistance Ⅲ.

Our hypothesis is nearly testified by finding these 6 periods in the process of group psychotherapy.

However, we also found some exceptions :

1) The level of resistance or subject occasionally return from higher level to lower level.

2) The resistance and subject of the same level are not necessarily regular in the order of those appearance.

3) Appearance of the resistance Ⅲ is very few.

4) There are a little difference among the subject we analized as same level. for example, subject I in early stage of the therapy has often the relationship with resistance I , but in later stage, it is the pure subject which has no relation with the resistance.

5) In subject Ⅲ via resistance Ⅲ, the rate of group cohesiveness was higher than subject Ⅲ without resistance Ⅲ.

And also, members in the former case get insight and improved themselves more frequently than members in the latter case.

Discussion :

1) The resistance are very important for the progress of group psychotherapy, namely, catharsis of the feeling expressed in the resistance creates new confidential relationship between member and therapist and this new relationship makes progress to the group psychotherapy.

2) Very few frequency of the resistance Ⅲ will be due to have analized the content of members speech in the resistance. Because the resistance Ⅲ is often expressed in silence or the subject of lower level.

We have studied the problem of delinquency with special reference to socialization process. For delinquency cannot be ascribed only to the process of anti-socialty or criminality. From this stand point, focussing upon the school and the job as the basic socializing areas in adolescence and the incidental areas so as companionships and pleasure seekings, we intended that the adjustment (mal-adjustment, non-adjustment) of adolescent to these areas and the formation and development of delinquency are to be grasped simultaneously.

In the first place of this project, we have studied (1) the problem of relation between the development of criminality and the socialization type of community and (2) the problem of the occupational adjustment and the occurrence of delinquency, phenomenally in main.

109 male delinquent inmates of public reform schools in Tohoku district are studied from the point of view of socialpsychology with special respect to the relation between their occupations and delinquencies.

Our subjects’ channels of occupational socialization are proved to be different from the standard one of youth in Japan, and it forms one factor to make them gain access to the delinquent situations. And we have found 5 patterns that each delinquent learns the concret delinquent acts in connection with his occupational situations.

In this monograph the auther tried to scrutinize the criminological significance of the sentiment, “Urami” in cotext of the motives of a category of aggressive offenses, such as arson, assault and violent acts against school teachers by secondary high school students. According to Doctor Doi, “Urami” is ambivalent with “Amae”. The feeling, “Urami” is, in its passive nuance, “to tolerate and repress the discontentment caused by the inadmissible behavior of the other against one,” however, in its active nuance, “to resent and revenge,” according to the authorized Japanese dictionary. French, “ressentiment” seems to have the most similar meaning among foreign languages, but subtle passive and agressive nuance, which Japanese “Urami” keeps will never be fully expressed in other languages. The auther gave the important function as the motive of aggressive offenses to “Urami”, by studying three typical cases, which include aggression. The auther, also, testified the ambivalence between “Urami” and “Amae”, which lay under or behind the cases.