Odysseus' Labours: A Rehabilitation and Recovery Guide for Those Who Have a Mental Illness and Their Carers

by Paul Kauffman, Rupert Gerritsen

Overview

A magnificent guide for anyone suffering mental illness or for a carer. A handbook of practical advice explaining:
· how to obtain the best medical and psychiatric care,
· how to obtain housing,
· what to do if sacked after developing a mental illness, particularly if work related,
· the cellist David Pereira’s description of suffering a mental illness,
· how to navigate the National Disability Insurance Scheme, and
· in sex abuse, how to obtain adequate compensation from a powerful institution.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940155267560
Publisher:	Tellwell Talent
Publication date:	05/17/2018
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Dr Paul Kauffman is a writer, administrator and polymath.

He was leading actor in Shakespearean and classical tragedies at school and university since the age of 16. He studied five European languages at school and five Asian languages at university. He gained a doctoral scholarship to Cambridge University at age 22. He has written four non-fiction books, three novels and published some 30 articles, including seven on psychiatry. In 2017 he established Australian Players ACT to provide paid work to talented Australian actors and directors. He is writing five plays about outstanding women. His plays are accompanied by academic articles and e-books with numerous coloured illustrations and portraits. He established www.lifeofshakespeare.com website with other eminent scholars.

For many years he worked with Australian Indigenous peoples helping them gain land rights, native title, and establish housing, health and educational programs. He has also been a visiting professor at Cambridge, University of British Columbia, UQAM Montreal, Konstanz University Germany and the OECD in Paris. He met his wife Jan when 18 in Venice. They married and 12 months later had twin daughters and a son 15 months thereafter, blessed with children even more quickly than William and Anne Shakespeare.

Plays Emilia and Wil; Princess Phaedra; Lou Andreas Salome.
Music and songs by David Pereira, scripts by Paul Kauffman

Rupert Gerritsen has worked in the community services sector for over 35 years. He also has a career as a researcher spanning 23 years. In this he researches and publishes works on a diverse range of topics, including early Australian history, archaeology, maritime archaeology, historical linguistics, historical ethnography, ethnogeography, prehistory and social issues. Rupert is active in promoting awareness of early Australian history as well, being the co-founder in 2002 of Australia on the Map: 1606 - 2006, becoming the Secretary of that organisation. He is now the Chair of its successor organisation, the Australia on the Map Division of the Australasian Hydrographic Society. Go to http://rupertgerritsen.tripod.com/ for further information, publications and other works