-Caveat Lector- Dear List, Please find these resources below. Sincerely, Neil Brick These may be heavy for survivors of abuse to read. Cheryl Hersha's (co-author of "Secret Weapons - Two Sisters' Terrifying True Story of Sex, Spies and Sabotage" by Cheryl and Lynn Hersha with Dale Griffis, Ph D. and Ted Schwartz. New Horizon Press, P O Box 669 Far Hills, NJ 07931 - ISBN 0-88282-196-2) response to: "Secret Weapons: Whitewashing CIA Mind Control Atrocities," by Uri Dowbenko is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/psnews/message/302 Early sexual abuse and low cortisol. King JA, Mandansky D, King S, Fletcher KE, Brewer J Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2001 Feb; 55(1):71-4 - " Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health disorder precipitated by a stressful event that produces fear or terror in the individual. Post-traumatic stress disorder studies, particularly in early sexual abuse, have been associated with neuroendocrine dysfunction, most notably the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis....The present study shows that subjects who had been abused within the last couple of months had significantly lower cortisol in comparison to control subjects...The data suggest that children may have an impaired HPA axis after early trauma." What Did the C.I.A. Do to Eric Olson's Father? - by Michael Ignatieff - "for a quarter of a century, a close friend of mine, a Harvard classmate, has believed that the Central Intelligence Agency murdered his father, a United States government scientist. ....On June 11, 1975, The Washington Post revealed that a commission led by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller had discovered that "a civilian employee of the Department of the Army unwittingly took LSD as part of a Central Intelligence Agency test" and "developed serious side effects."" http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/01/magazine/01OLSON.html?ex=987215818&ei=1&en=7 90 The Olson File - A secret that could destroy the CIA - by Kevin Dowling and Phillip Knightley - "in 1975 the Rockefeller Commission, ...to examine the extent of the CIA‚s illegal domestic operations, revealed that an unnamed army scientist had died after CIA experts, experimenting with mind-bending drugs, had secretly slipped him a dose of potent LSD. During the ensuing uproar, the scientist was identified as Frank Olson....CIA director, William Colby, held a lunch for Mrs Olson and Eric in his office at the CIA, apologised and gave them the CIA file on the case. According to the file, Olson had suffered a "chemically-induced psychotic flashback" a week after he had been slipped the dose of LSD. So a CIA doctor, Richard Lashbrook, had been deputed to look after Olson until he was normal again." The article discusses alternative theories to Olson's death to the one commonly known. http://www.frankolsonproject.org/Articles/LondonMail.html Rorschach correlates of sexual abuse: Trauma content and aggression indexes. Kamphuis JH, Kugeares SL, Finn SE J Pers Assess Oct 75(2):212-224, 2000 "clients with definite sexual abuse scored significantly higher than clients known not to be sexually abused on J. G. Armstrong and R. J. Loewenstein's (1990) Trauma Content index (TC/R)...Although TC/R was strongly associated with the presence and severity of sexual abuse, it could not discriminate sexually abused from nonsexually abused clients with great accuracy. The TC/R score is one factor among many that can be used to assess the validity of clients' claims of past sexual abuse." Child sexual abuse and later disordered eating: A New Zealand epidemiological study. Romans SE, Gendall KA, Martin JL, Mullen PE Int J Eat Disord 2001 May; 29(4):380-92 "CSA women with ED (CSA+ED) were compared with CSA women without ED (CSA-noED) and with CSA women with anxiety and/or depression (psychiatric comparison group). RESULTS: Higher rates of EDs in women who have experienced CSA were confirmed in this study." Child sexual abuse as a predictor of psychiatric co-morbidity and its implications for drug and alcohol treatment. Jarvis TJ, Copeland J Drug & Alcohol Dependence 1997 Dec 49(1):61-69, 1997 "Explores the association between child sexual abuse (CSA) and psychological co-morbidity among 180 women (aged 16-69 yrs) receiving either drug and alcohol treatment or CSA counseling....Results show that Ss reported elevated levels of anxiety, somatisation, and dissociation but not depression. Higher rates of self-harm, eating disorders and sexual dysfunction were also reported by CSA survivors. Women with a history of both CSA and substance abuse were more likely to have attempted suicide than other women." Childhood sexual abuse and bulimic behavior in a nationally representative sample. Wonderlich SA, Wilsnack RW, Wilsnack SC, Harris TR Am J Public Health 86(8, Pt 1):1082-1086, 1996 "representative national sample of 1,099 US women... Findings suggest that childhood sexual abuse is a risk factor for bulimic behavior. Between one-sixth and one-third of the cases of significant bulimic disturbance could be attributed to childhood sexual abuse." Childhood sexual abuse and women's substance abuse: National survey findings. Wilsnack S C, Vogeltanz ND, Klassen AD, Harris TR J Studies Alcohol May 58(3): 264-271, 1997 "national survey of women's drinking, 1,099 US women (aged 21 yrs & older) were asked about sexual experiences occurring before age 18....Results... indicated that women with histories of CSA were significantly more likely than women without CSA histories to report recent alcohol use, intoxication, drinking-related problems and alcohol dependence symptoms; lifetime use of prescribed psychoactive drugs and illicit drugs; depression and anxiety; pain that prevented intercourse; and consensual sexual intercourse before age 15." <A HREF!ttp://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER İİİCTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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