anti-psychotic weight gain, panic disorder.

These are tides you have the opportunity to calm before they turn into storm.

Welcome to the Carlyte Psychiatry podcast, keeping psychiatry honest since 2003.

I'm Chris Akin, the editor-in-chief of the Carlat Psychiatry Report.

And I'm Kelly Newsom, a psychiatric MP, and a dedicated reader of every issue.

In April of 1945, a young U.S. Staff Sergeant arrived at the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.

He had already seen 80% of his platoon killed in combat,

but he wasn't prepared for this next layer of trauma as he stepped in to figure out who was living

and who was dead in the piles of emaciated bodies left by the Nazis. The soldier was J.D. Salinger,

and to deal with the years of trauma he kept a typewriter in his military

Jeep, where he worked throughout the war on a novel that would become the catcher in the

wry. At the end of World War II, Salinger was hospitalized for battle fatigue, now known as

post-traumatic stress disorder, and his central character, Holden Caulfield, appears to

nominate his coming-of-age tale from a psychiatric hospital.

The catcher in the wry barely mentions the war, but the trauma is all there if you read between the lines.

Caulfield can't get the death of his brother out of his mind.

It's the trauma that set him down the ragged path of alienation.

And why do we start this podcast with a coming-of-age novel?

Because J.D. Salinger was onto something when he called the book The Catcher in the Rye.

The title comes from a Robert Burns poem that Caulfield keeps repeating to himself,

If a Body Catch a Body coming through the rye.

Caulfield fantasizes about catching people before they fall off the cliff of adolescence

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