About Healing of a Psychotherapist: A Journey of Rebellion, Reflection, and Redemption by Charles McCormack
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.
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Among McCormack’s accomplishments: Senior Social Worker, Adult Longterm Inpatient Sevices Sheppard-Prass Psychiatric Hospital; Teaching and Supervisory Faculty, Sheppard-Pratt Hospital; Clinical Social Worker of the Year, Maryland Society of Clinical Social Workers; author Treating The Borderline/Schizoid Marriage: The Holding Environment as an Essential Treatment Construct (Jl of Marriage and Family Therapy); author Borderline States in Marriage: Dealing with Oppositionalism, Ruthless Aggression, and Severe Resistance; Faculty, Washington School of Psychiatry; Graduate of The New Directions Writing from a Psychoanalytic Perspective program of the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. Essence, the first edition of Healing of a Psychotherapist, is the winner of the Montaigne Medal awarded the most thought-provoking book of 2022 by the Eric Hoffer Book Awards. Healing of a Psychotherapist is the culmination of numerous rewrites resulting from McCormack's taking constructive criticism to heart and is now in its final form with which McCormack is very pleased. He particularly values the thoughtful reviews and emails he has received about Healing of a Psychotherapist that speak to the reader's having been moved and enriched by his story. In 2023 McCormack was the recipient of the Emeritus Award from the University of Maryland for his innovative contributions to social work practice. Now, partially retired, he maintains a small private telehealth practice in Aberdeen, Md, and resides on the border of the Bush River just off the Chesapeake Bay. He enjoys boating with his wife Janet, long walks, audiobooks, amateur photography, strumming a guitar, travel, and listening to the waves lapping the shores of the Bush River while Blue Heron and Bald Eagles cavort in the sky around his house. Every several weeks he gets together with one or more of his seven grandchildren, which he finds both exhilarating and exhausting. He soon recovers and does it all again taking joy in the uniqueness of each of them and seeing the people they are in the process of becoming. If you would like to contact me my email is: charlesmccormack81@gmail.com.