現代精神医学では，不安障害の治療は「病的症状」の程度や数を軽減することである。これらの症状は，生物学的基礎をもった“病的不安”により生じるとされるが，かつてはこの“病的不安”を，エスから起こる衝動（性欲）により（S.フロイト），また思想の矛盾（「生の欲望」と，「死の恐怖」のギャップ）により（森田正馬）もたらされると考えられてきた。この二つの説は共に，症状の出現が“欲求の挫折”（欲求不満）から起こることを示唆している。そこで，他の精神障害でも，“挫折した欲求”が解消すれば，症状が消失するかどうかを調べるための症例検討である。

　本症例は２２歳の女性の外来患者で，拒食，強迫行為，薬物乱用，不眠など多彩な「病的症状」を抱えていたが，生育歴と主訴から“愛情欲求”の挫折が示唆された。「病的症状」はそのままに，“挫折した欲求”のみを修復する治療を行った。治療開始半年後に欲求が充足され始めると，まもなく全ての「病的症状」は消失した。

This paper explores how Filipina newcomer mothers working as domestic workers form, maintain, and use networks as educational resources. This paper describes their subjective activities for forming these resources. The data used in this research were based on semi-structured interviews conducted with seven Filipina women and on participant observations conducted in churches and homes.

Because of the particularity of their work, which their legal employment is, in principle, limited to “non-Japanese” employers, they come to Japan using their personal networks. Then, they start using their networks to find churches in Japan and develop networks through the churches. Contemporaneously, they form local networks. Almost all network members have children of about the same age. The dual-network system (i.e., of a church network and a local network) helps to make the women’s lives in Japan stable.

The children have close relationships, because they grow up together and their mothers are friends. Coleman’s “intergenerational closure” appears to exist in their networks. They can monitor and guide not only children but also mothers. Therefore, it provides social capital to mothers, which they can use in raising their children: they can assist their children in adapting to school and take them to church to teach them about Christianity. Mothers consolidate their ties by educating children together in this manner.

In addition, the solidarity of the networks is cemented by the exclusion of outsiders. For example, mothers show visible distaste for Filipina entertainers and strongly emphasize the differences between them. Regularly attending church, helping each other, and ensuring that children receive a good education might be ways in which mothers emphasize their differences with Filipina entertainers.