'Before his retirement from full-time work in 2001, Max was a senior Health Psychologist in the Adelaide offices of the Department of Veterans Affair’s Veterans Counselling Service. He continued his successful private practice consulting with veterans and private clients referred from local medical clinics. He has worked in the Geelong University Chronic Pain Clinic and has been a regular team member on the Deakin University, Multiple Mini Interviews (MMIs) for the Doctor of Medicine since 2012. Max attained his PhD from Flinders University in 2007. Titled The Discursive Construction of War-related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, the thesis reviewed post trauma stress responses over the past 120 years and interviewed veterans, DVA officers and mental health providers dealing with the effects of war-related trauma of Australian soldiers over major overseas conflicts.
'During the past thirteen years, Max has led groups on mindfulness and meditative approaches to chronic pain and trauma. He has self-published an e-book screenplay, Fall from Grace, examining the trauma response in Australian East Timor veterans. Max lives on the Victorian Bellarine Peninsular with his partner, Annette, and builds and runs workshops on wooden boat building.' (https://moonglowpublishing.com.au/store/p31/makersons-war.html#/
