An unhappy childhood often affects who we become in adulthood and our capacity to enjoy whatever successes we achieve. In Healing of a Psychotherapist: A Journey of Rebellion, Reflection, and Redemption, Charles McCormack, MA, MSW, LCSW-C, uses his own life in illustration. With searing honesty, McCormack lays bare his personal and professional ordeals, along with the lessons he's drawn and continues to draw. Though his story is unique, his struggles are not; thus, McCormack's narrative works its way into the heart of each of us. His take home, the one given to him by his mother on her deathbed, is clear. Staring into his eyes, she was emphatic: "Charlie. Have a good life. Have a good life.," refusing to break her hold upon him until he finally committed, "I will, mom, I will, " all the while thinking, "how the hell do I do that?" McCormack hopes that sharing his story through this book brings his readers insight and healing.

McCormack: Clinical Social Worker of the Year, State of Maryland and author of Treating Borderline States in Marriage: Dealing with Oppositionalism, Ruthless Aggression and Severe Resistance, has spoken across the United States and in Canada on psychotherapy with difficult to treat individuals and couples. He is Guest Faculty Washington School of Psychiatry and formerly was the Senior Social Worker of Adult Long-term Inpatient Services at Sheppard-Pratt Psychiatric Hospital and Field Instructor for The University of Maryland and Smith College schools of social work.

Charles C. McCormack, MSW, holds masters degrees from Loyola College of Baltimore in psychology and the University of Maryland in social work. He is a licensed certified social worker and a Board Certified Diplomate. Over the past twenty-six years, he has worked in a variety of outpatient settings including drug treatment, partial hospitalization, and physical and sexual abuse treatment programs. In 1982, he began working in long-term inpatient treatment and from 1988 to 1992 was the Senior Social Worker of Long-Term Inpatient Services at Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital. In 1989, his paper "The Borderline/Schizoid Marriage: The Holding Environment as an Essential Treatment Construct" was published in the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. Mr. McCormack has presented numerous papers and workshops in the United States and Canada on the treatment of "difficult to treat" individuals, couples, and families. He is on the teaching and supervisory faculty of Sheppard-Pratt Hospital and is a guest faculty member of the Washington School of Psychiatry's Psychoanalytic Object Relations Family and Couples Therapy Training Program. In 1994, Mr. McCormack was named Clinician of the Year by the Maryland Society of Clinical Social Workers. He currently supervises and maintains a private practice in Baltimore.
Published Works:
McCormack, C.C. The Borderline/Schizoid Marriage: The Holding Environment as an Essential Treatment Construct. The Journal of Marriage and Family Therapy 15:299 - 309, 1989.
McCormack, C. C. Treating Borderline States in Marriage: Dealing with Oppositionalism, Ruthless Aggression, and Severe Resistance. January 2000. Jason Aronson, NJ.
McCormack, C.C. Marital therapy. In The Borderline Personality, continuing education audio tapes, ed. B. Alexander. On Good Authority, Il. (2002)
McCormack, C.C. An object relations approach to the understanding and treatment of the personality disordered marriage. In Family Treatment of Personality Disorders: Interpersonal Approaches to Relationship Change, ed. M. McFarland. Howarth Press (2003 or 2004)
Major Talks:
1989.
Grand Rounds.
--"The Understanding and Treatment of Borderline States." Suburban Hospital, Washington, D.C. 1990.
--The Washington School of Psychiatry, Eleventh Annual Conference on Psychoanalytic Object Relations Family Therapy. "Projective Identification in the Borderline/Schizoid Marriage." Washington, D.C.1990.
--Miami Children's Hospit...