Holden Caulfield Psychological Report

Psychological Report

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Patient Name: Holden Caulfield
Age: 16-Sixteen Years of Age
Physical Description: Crew cut, 6ft 2in, Right side of head gray hair, Extremely skinny, Smokes, and Drinks a lot.
Family Relations: Phoebe: Relation Sister Age:10 Stage: Alive, Allie: Relation Brother Age: 11 Stage: Deceased, Mother & Father’s Status: Emotionally discontinued and doesn’t talk to Holden
Other significant relationships: Jane Gallagher

II Historic Timeline:
Holden was first kicked out of Prep. School, called Pencey. Holden gets into a fight with Ackley because Holden likes Jane, and she is going on a date with Ackley. Holden gets a prostitute sent up to his room and decides to have a conversation with her instead of sex. Holden then thinks

One thing that Holden believes is that the world is unscrupulous and is full of phonies. An example of this would be, “One of the biggest reasons I left Elkton Hills was because I was surrounded by phonies. That's all. They were coming in the goddam window. For instance, they had this headmaster, Mr. Haas, that was the phoniest bastard I ever met in my life. Ten times worse than old Thurmer” (Salinger 13). In three sentences, Holden talked about multiple people being phonies. This could contribute to depression, the feeling of hopelessness for society and himself. Holden values very little, but one thing he did value was his relationship with Phoebe, an example of this was when they were talking, "’Wait a second—take the rest of your dough, too.’ I started giving her the rest of the dough she'd lent me.’You keep it. Keep it for me,’ she said. Then she said right afterward—’Please.’ That's depressing, when somebody says ‘please’ to you. I mean if it's Phoebe or somebody. That depressed the hell out of me. But I put the dough back in my pocket” (Salinger 211). Holden values that Phoebe is always there and wants to give the money back to

]Holden has several treatment options, such as counseling. If he chooses to counsel then he will undergo several tests and a weekly encounter with a professionally trained staff member to talk about his emotions and work them out. Another option would be to go to a therapy. If he chooses therapy, then he would be sent to one of the facilities with other people that have similar conditions. He would constantly have relaxing areas, and different therapy specialists to help treat his conditions. People around Holden do not need to treat him differently. Once he gets help from one of the professional offers the company allows, he will be back to smiling and seeing the bright side of day