Well, thank Gary JDS didn't send Holden 'round to Dr. X's to say goodbye before leaving Pencey; a heavy prescription of ritalin and prozac could have ended it right there. Steve Gallagaher Tim O'Connor wrote: > He was making (among ten thousand others) the point that the right kind of > psychopharmacology can help many, many depressed people far more than talk > therapy can, and he said, "You know the book The Catcher in the Rye? If > they had been able to treat Holden Caulfield with [psychopharmacology], the > book would have been this:" > > Then he brought his palms to about two inches apart to indicate the length > of the tale (not the thickness of the book). He said, "It would have been > a short story." >