312 Index opium smuggling, 43 Ormrod, Mark, 202

Palmer, Major Harold, 57 Pals Battalions, 33 Panorama, 124, 127 Parachute Regiment, 43, 81, 99,

248, 263 ‘parasites of the mind’, 31 Passchendaele, Battle of, 37 Patch, Harry, 37 Patton, Lieutenant General

George S., 57 Phoenix House Recovery Centre,

175 phrenology, 136 ‘poor moral fibre’, 54 poppy appeal, 188 Port Stanley, remembrance service,

246–9 post-traumatic stress disorder

(PTSD), xvi–xvii, xix, 25, 31, 137–44 and alcohol abuse, 82–5 and avoidance behaviour, 107 and brain changes, 85 and brain function, 235–41,

259, 262 changing attitudes to, 168–9 causes of, 142–4 increasing awareness of, 64–6 and military defensiveness,

285–6 and offending, 93–4, 102–3 professional recognition of,

62–4 raised media profile, 191–2 rates, 138–42 rates among reservists, 174–5

revolutionary remedies, 270–1 standard treatments, 137–8 and stigma, 136, 139–41, 168–9 and veterans’ grievances,

159–63, 168–9 and violent offending, 108–9 ‘power animals’, 273–5, 278–80,

287 Powers, Kevin, xii Priory Group, 83, 117–18, 198 prison, ex-forces and, 93–103,

108–10 proximity, immediacy and expectancy (PIE), 34, 146 Psyche , 6 0 psychiatry and psychotherapy,

34–5, 56–64, 135–44 and brain function, 235–41 PTSD Resolution, 203–4

Queen’s Square Hospital, 35

racism, 286 RAF Bomber Command, 58 RAF Brize Norton, 171 RAF Club, 170, 179, 186 RAF Lyneham, 170–1 RAF Regiment, 147, 162 ‘railway spine’, 30 RAMC Training Manual, 29 recruitment age, 140 ‘red books’, 217 Remembrance Sunday, xii reservists, 174–5 resettlement and transition,

288–90 RFA Sir Galahad, 72, 187, 250,

252–3, 258 Rickman, Dr John, 59