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Rezension von: Klaus R. Schröder und Georg Noack (Hrsg.), Myanmar/ Burma erzählt: 25 zeitgenössische Kurzgeschichten. Reise Know-How, Westerstede 2013 (2. Aufl.), 273 S., südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 31 Nr. 3 (2015): Räume der Imagination: Literatur im (Kon)text

Psychoeducation is an important part in the therapy of mental diseases. Until now there is little experience with patients and their family members attending the same psychoeducational group. We work with a psychoeducational group for depressed patients and their families. The aims are support and relief for the family, information about the affective disorder and acquisition of skills to improve the relationship between patients and family members. Every three months we start a new group with three sessions. At the first session we give information about symptoms, the disease and prognosis. At the second meeting we discuss the causes and how to deal with the disorder. The contents of the last session are the treatment and recidive prophylaxis. In the time from winter 1998 to spring 2000 six different groups have taken place with 101 patients and family members as participants. There was a high continuity of participation and a positive feed-back of the members. We can recommend this kind of psychoeducational group for other psychiatric hospitals. Patients and their family members can come to terms with this illness and become experts on depression.

The color arrangement test can be applied for early diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy, even small confusion of colors influence clinical diagnosis. It is therefore necessary to be aware of influential factors.Forty-four patients with color-experience (VW-Werk Wolfsburg) were included and devided in two groups: group 1: non-smokers without ophthalmological and systemic diseases (n = 27, 42+/-9 years), group 2: smokers without ophthalmological and systemic diseases (n = 17; 43+/-8 years). The control group 3 (n = 30; 42+/-4 years) included non-smokers and the control group 4 (n = 10; 42+/-8 years) smokers, both groups without color-experience, ophthalmological and systemic diseases. Besides the ophthalmological examinations (visual acuity, refraction, intraocular pressure, slit lamp and fundus examination) the color-vision was tested by the color-arrangement-test Roth 28-hue (E) desaturated monocularly under standard conditions: The background used was black cardboard, illuminated by two Osram fluorescent lamps (L36W/12LDL Daylight) providing 2000 lux at the test table.Ophthalmological examination in all subjects was without pathological findings. The mean error score in the non-smokers with color-experience (median+/-mean absolute deviation: 48+/-47) was lower than in the non-smokers without color experience (72+/-45; Mann-Withney-U-Test: p = 0.02). The mean error score in the smokers with color-experience (60+/-60) was lower than in the smokers without color-experience (156+/-65; p = 0.0014). No statistically significant difference was found between the measurements of the right and left eye (Wilcoxon-Test: group 1: p = 0.89; group 2: p = 0.9; group 3: p = 0.77; group 4: p = 0.87).Color experience improves the results in color-arrangement-tests like the Roth 28-hue (E) desaturated and should be considered in quantitative evaluation.