Dafydd Alun Jones, consultant psychiatrist, has spent thirty years treating the soldiers, who have been traumatised by their experience of conflict

‘We train them to kill but we expect them to be normal’

Dafydd Alun Jones, consultant psychiatrist, has spent thirty years treating the soldiers, who have been traumatised by their experience of conflict

by Judy Kirby 20th October 2010

In 1981 consultant psychiatrist Dafydd Alun Jones had a referral from a GP to his clinic in Dolgellau, Wales. The patient had been pensioned out of his family firm suffering from depression and alcoholism. The story that emerged was one of trauma lasting decades. The man had been shot down over Holland in the second world war during a night mission, survived and made it almost to the Pyrenees before being captured and subsequently ill-treated.

‘We train them to kill but we expect them to be normal’

Dafydd Alun Jones, consultant psychiatrist, has spent thirty years treating the soldiers, who have been traumatised by their experience of conflict

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