Schizoid Personality Disorder In Catcher In The Rye

Malnutrition occurs when people refuse to eat or have lost their appetite while lack of sleep comes from the brain being overstimulated before bedtime. Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye shows symptoms of both these health risks. He is unable to sleep when he tries to and he avoids eating for hours on end. Holden as a teenager, should be getting a significant amount of sleep and he should be eating a certain amount of food but he isn’t getting the nutrients or sleep his body requires.

As a neurotic person, Holden exhibits Self-Hatred for himself through his tendency to deal with problems through childish impulses. Self-Hatred occurs when one attempts to cope with their existential anxiety by allowing it to manifest into mental illnesses. Holden shows this when he allows his innocence to make adult decisions. For example, he hires a prostitute and plans to have sex with her, which is something that signifies the loss of innocence and transitions into adulthood. When she arrives, he changes his mind and asks “‘Don’t you feel like talking for a while?’” (Salinger 95). This shows that Holden is unable to make adult decisions, and instead, relies on his childish impulses. Holden’s childish impulses also lead to violent outcomes, such as with

It is often said that the people one surrounds themselves with can reflect things about themselves, such as their beliefs and ideals. One’s friends and acquaintances can reveal subconscious attractions to people that fulfill their ideals or agree with the things they say, but these relationships can also help one discover their personal philosophies by reinforcing opposing views. Indeed, in J.D. Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, the way Holden reacts to and interacts with secondary characters reveal his established philosophies and the values he holds most dear to him.

The resistance of maturity and adulthood is greatly expressed throughout the novel. “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger. Both fear and trauma created during past events can cause a delay or rejection in maturity. Holden is unable to let go of his past and is constantly trying to live in a memory, this causes him to want to stay with his childhood and never transition into adulthood Holden’s fear of adulthood causes him isolate himself from society in order to preserve his inner child innocence. Furthermore, Holden’s resistance of maturity, also leads him to constantly wanting to protect innocence. Lastly, Holden’s inability step out of his immaturity leads him to act impulsively and self-deceive. All these actions and thoughts are signs of immaturity and are the outcome of a fear and trauma that occurred in the past.

Divided Minds is a powerful, heart wrenching memoir written by two twin sisters, Pamela Spiro Wagner and Carolyn S. Spiro about their journey through schizophrenia. Early on in their lives, Pamela is seen as the dominant and more outgoing twin. Pamela was creative, social, and intellectually bright. Carolyn often felt like she lived in the shadow of Pamela and could not quite measure up. When the girls were in the sixth grade, the first symptoms of Pamela’s future disorder appeared when the news of President Kennedy’s assassination broke and Pamela thought that she was somehow involved and to blame for his death. She begins to hear voices that would haunt her for years and her condition worsens throughout her adolescence. Pamela and Carolyn both attended Brown University and while Carolyn flourished in school, Pamela became moody and depressed. During their freshman year, Pamela’s episodes of irrationality become more extreme and she became very withdrawn. She has her first major breakdown and overdosed on sleeping pills. This was the beginning of the numerous hospitalizations and sessions with psychiatrists that would soon become a huge part of her life.

Existential anxiety is the negative feeling that arises in a human being. In the novel, Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, the main character, Holden narrates events that happen after his school, Pencey, kicked him out for his deficient grades.With signs of this anxiety, he quickly finds himself in a state of depression caused by his struggle of growing up. Overwhelmed and afraid, Holden runs the other direction when he is hit with the idea of aging and his immature and innocent characteristics allow him to wander astray. Holden deals with his existential anxiety from his greatest fear, but throughout the story, we distinguish him experience phases of self hate from childish impulses and attempting to move towards the path of self

He is not intensely preoccupied with academic achievement like many more modern teenagers, having failed out of several prestigious preparatory schools, but he is clearly intelligent and tends to dwell on“heavy” topics like death and loss of innocence. His cynicism and sensitivity, in addition to the trauma he experiences from losing his brother Allie, suggest that he has depression or another untreated mental illness, an interpretation which is common among readers and supported by Holden’s visit with a psychotherapist at the end of the novel. Despite the risks he faces through having an untreated mental illness, shown when he is warned that he is “riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall” through self-destructive behavior, the conformist culture and social niceties of the 1950s prevented him from being able to discuss his thoughts for a large portion of the novel. (186) This culture, specifically the “phony” prep schools, is clearly toxic for Holden and likely contributed heavily towards his negative mental state, and therefore the negative image he often has of

The psychoanalytic lens discusses an individual's actions based on their conscious and unconscious mind. The novel “The Catcher in the Rye”, written by J.D. Salinger, focuses on the life of a depressed protagonist, Holden Caulfield. Holden experiences the death of his young brother Allie and struggles with transition from his innocent childhood to his sophisticated adulthood. This transition eventually influences his mental state of mind, which causes him to suffer from loneliness, frustration and alienation. The novel is better understood from a psychoanalytic lens rather than an existentialism perspective because of Holden’s conscious actions and unconscious desires which are portrayed throughout the novel. The transition from an innocent

Holden has several insecurities that are displayed throughout the book that hint at his condition.

Christopher Moore once said “If you think anybody is sane you just don’t know enough about them”. J.D Salinger continuously suggests that Holden Caulfield could be mentally ill, by intertwining the events happening in his life with the twisted and often macabre images and behaviors that Holden constantly exhibits throughout the novel The Catcher in the Rye. Holden appears to exhibit three very real and potentially dangerous mental disorders this is shown through Holden’s questionable actions for example burning matches just to watch them burn, having vivid images about killing or harming others, and his constant need to control others lives and that is just the tip of the questionable iceberg that is Holden. Could Holden really be classified

Teen health is an important aspect of people’s lives. Teenagers and adolescents need to be more aware of the challenges that life can have in store for them. The unawareness and severity of those challenges can lead to a surprise that isn’t welcomed. That often leads to depression and anxiety during years of being an adolescent. One instance of a story portraying this sort of anxiety is Catcher in the Rye. It’s an adolescent struggling through some demons of the past and gets more anxious as the story progresses. Holden shows many different signs of anxiety and he seems very lonely at times.

Holden like many people with Borderline Personality Disorder are afraid of being alone, so the desperately try to avoid feeling lonely (“National Institute of Mental Health”). Holden in attempts to have some form of company

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, about one in four American adults suffer from a mental disorder. This means that 57.7 out of 217.8 million people over the age of 18 are ill; never mind that mental illnesses are the leading cause of disability in Canada and the United States. Holden Caulfield, the controversial main character of J.D Salinger’s novel Catcher in the Rye, spends much of the book wandering through the streets of New York City. Kicked out of boarding school for the umpteenth time, he does many odd things: he calls a prostitute, tries to befriend a taxi driver, drinks with middle aged women, and sneaks into his own house in the middle of the night. While many of these things seem outré, some may even go as

J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye is regarded as a seminal work of fiction with many psychological and social themes, particularly those related to personal development and the transition out of childhood. In this paper, The Catcher in the Rye will be analyzed from the basis of an Adlerian psychoanalytic perspective with a particular emphasis on personality development and the influence of siblings and birth order. This analysis will center around the main character of Salinger’s story, ‘Holden’, who appears to have developed an inferiority complex in his early life which he attempts to make up for with antisocial and dishonest de-identification behaviour. The Adlerian model of psychoanalysis is ideally suited for the character of Holden and provides a number of insights into the influences upon Holden, the state of his mind and the motivations that make up his unique character.

At one point in our lives or another, we have all been to school, we have all been into the lunchroom, and we have all seen those few children that sit by themselves and don’t say anything, don’t look around, and don’t seem even the least bit interested. The greater parts of society looks at these odd children and then brushes them off and say to themselves “Oh they are just weird, I wouldn’t want to be their friend either.” But have you ever stopped and thought maybe its something deeper? Maybe these kids have a mental disorder that causes them to be that way. Maybe, just maybe, its not even their own choice but its forced upon them by abusive and neglectful parents that obliterate their children’s trust so far that they cant even