Upon spending hours speaking with my patient during our therapy sessions. I am under the impression that my patient, Holden Caulfield, is suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Holden Caulfield is a 16-year-old male teenager, who has a difficult time dealing with the death of his younger brother. Having to struggle through that tragedy, he has problems behaving in a socially ... acceptable way. Based on my analysis on Holden, he shows symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder. Along with the causes of Borderline Personality Disorder Holden demonstrates many symptoms that ... ...

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Holden Caulfield is suffering from the severe depression and is socially incompetent which enables him to not form lasting relationships with friends or family. This comes from being alone all the time not sharing his feelings with anyone. He constantly feels betrayed by society as Mr. Spencer who told him about his expulsion from Pencey Prep. Holden felt the adult world was full of ... of the cliff). Also, he finds comfort talking to his ten-year old sister, Phoebe, whom he feels is the most intelligent of all. This kind of behavior tells that Holden consider himself alienated from society t...

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... the main character is Holden Caulfield. He is a teen- age boy who goes through some major changes. His life is taken over by isolation and depression. This is all caused by his attitude towards others, his failure to accept the world around him and his various obsessions with sex and alcohol. Holden is not able to ... of going to New England or Colorado, to go anywhere, just so he doesn't have to face the people or situations around him. Holden also has an obsession with sex. Holden is a virgin, but he is very interested in sex, and in fact he spends much of the novel trying to lose his ...

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Holden Caulfield's Update Holden Caulfield is a child with many different issues. Some of these issues are stronger than the rest. Holden's breakdown, in my mind, is the presumed suicide attempt and/or hospitalization of himself. Holden used phrases such as "getting sick" to describe what had happened to him, but the ideas he puts across are clear ... apply himself. By not applying himself, it seems that he is getting his parents back for sending him to a private school. Yet I think that if Holden chose to apply himself, then he would be able to get good grades and prove his parents wrong for ...

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... two books portray the lives of two teenagers striving to stay alive in the rigorous world they live in. J. D. Salinger points out how Holden is constantly angry with the world. He often seeks refuge from old friends, attempting to forget about both his past and his future. Judith Guest ... The two stories are both similar and contrasting in the aspects of family and relationships, loneliness and isolation, and their maturation throughout the novels. Holden creates a dark, isolated appearance from the very beginning of his tale when he tells of the football game with everyone in the schoo...

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... through his troubled times. Holden, subconsciously, mentioned death frequently in his everyday language. His verbal expressions of death symbolized his constant thoughts about suicide. Despite his suicidal mentality, he had a fear of death and disappearance from the world. From the book, one could infer that Holden despised violence greatly because of its deadly repercussions. Allie Caulfield was Holden's deceased younger brother. ... He died of leukemia when Holden was thirteen. Allie was " the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. ... He never...

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... look into the life of Conrad Jarret, a teenage boy who lives with his mother and father. The Catcher in the Rye deals with Holden Caulfield, a seventeen-year-old boy who is returning home from school to his parents and younger sister. These two characters have some differences yet ... lost a brother to death. Their brothers, however, affected them differently. Conrad's brother, Jordan, died in the same boating accident, which Conrad survived. Holden's brother Alie died of leukemia. Conrad feels guilty about Jordan's death because Conrad survived the accident. He feels that Jordan shoul...

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... Holden Caulfield From the beginning of the story, it J.D. Salinger made it clear that the problems that were troubling Holden were deeper that issues of typical teen angst. Holden was self-destructive and emotionally unstable. The death of his younger brother Allie seemed to have a profound affect on Holden. It appears that Holden, ... not seem to cope with the responsibilities and pressures of the adult-world, and he preferred the simplicity and honesty of childhood. Although Holden grew up physically after his brother passed, his emotional growth was somewhat stunted. He did seem to ha...

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... Existentialists are individuals who are willing to live their lives both within and without the system that frames their identity and that is exactly who Holden Caulfield is. In "The Catcher in the Rye-, he has no real interest in school or any other institution. He is a true individual ... not one of overt Existentialism like "The Childhood of a Leader-, I have no idea of Salinger's philosophical orientation, but it is implicit that Holden is capable of freely making many different choices and only when made can he learn about himself. "The Dead- exhibits the fewest existential qualities...

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