Gatsby Patient Profile

I: Patient Profile One warm afternoon in West Egg Long Island, New York a young man come into my office. He had a very charismatic, charming vibe that I felt immediately when he walked in. He smiled at me as he slowly walked into the office and it was “one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it” (48). His smile made you believe that this was a good man who made you feel comfortable. He looked like a strong “ young elegant roughneck” not looking “a year or two over thirty”(48). As he came in he introduced himself as Jay Gatsby and asked me how I was doing adding in “old sport” at the end. Slowly as we began to tale I noticed his “elaborate formality of speech that just missed being absurd” (48). He had a specific
He has Dissociative Identity Disorder, better known as Multiple Personality Disorder. Throughout our meeting Gatsby daunted on his past of growing up dirt poor in North Dakota. He explained to me his desire to come from a wealthy family his whole life. He told me he motivated himself by writing down his weekly goals to improve himself. Being so poor was one of his traumatic experiences because he was so embarrassed about his family’s low income. Multiple Personality Disorder comes from traumatic experiences, and I could tell the way Gatsby looked when he told me of the shame he felt of being poor was certainly a very traumatic experience. He felt so embarrassed you could see it in his eyes, they looked weary when he told me of all his memories in poverty. He met Dan Cody, a wealthy man in the tin business who took James Gatz under his wing. Gatsby decided at that point he would no longer be James Gatz; he would be called Jay Gatsby. Although this was only a name change, it represented much more. He was leaving his old life and personality of a poor farmer behind with the name James Gatz. His new identity would be Jay Gatsby, a wealthy businessman from a rich