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Mr. McCormack holds Masters Degrees in Psychology and Clinical Social Work. He has had a forty-two-year career as a psychotherapist in a variety of treatment settings. Before entering private practice his last position was as Senior Social Worker of Adult Long-Term Inpatient Services at Sheppard-Pratt Hospital, a renowned psychiatric hospital in Baltimore. He supervised social work services on seven units ranging from the treatment of schizophrenia, to eating disorders, to bi-polar disorders, dissociative disorders and personality disorders. He published an article in the Journal of Marriage and Family Therapy on the treatment of personality disordered marriages in 1989. He published the book Treating Borderline States in Marriage: Dealing with Oppositionalism, Ruthless Aggression, and Severe Resistance in 2000 (Jason Aronson). He is former Guest Faculty of the Washington School of Psychiatry and member of the Teaching and Supervisory Faculty of Sheppard-Pratt. In 1994 he was named the Clinician of the Year by the Maryland Society of Clinical Social Workers. He has lectured around the country and in Canada on difficult to treat couples. He is married, has seven grandchildren and another on the way, and lives in Aberdeen, Md.
Reviewed by Divine Zape for Readers' Favorite
Hatching Charlie: A Psychotherapist's Tale by Charles Creath McCormack is a memoir with a powerful inspirational message. I was hesitant when I picked up this book, but the author’s promise in the prologue encouraged me and I am happy I read it. He writes: “I write to encourage you to take responsibility for your happiness. If there are two counter-intuitive things I’ve discovered in my wending journey as a man and as a psychotherapist, it’s that it takes great courage to be happy and that most of us are as happy as we can stand.” Writing one’s own journey is one of the therapies that helps to redefine one’s purpose, enhance healing, and unveil ways to determine how one’s life ends. McCormack’s memoir, like Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, is a memoir that is purpose-driven, a story in which the author answers the universal question: What does it really take to live a happy, fulfilling life?
With unalloyed frankness, the author takes readers on the path to his own darkness, his brokenness, his fears and uncertainties, and weaves a message that points to the light he’d discovered through his own commitment to grow and to help others. Readers will find lessons learned from the author’s personal life experiences and those that come through his practice as a psychologist. The author’s prose flows beautifully, devoid of any professional jargon, and the man whom readers will encounter in these pages will remind them of their own struggles, their own darkness, their own questions about life and happiness. They will understand that they own the key to unlocking the door to immense wealth and happiness. I was touched at how the author shares his struggles with “low self-esteem, the egotism, the mistakes made and then made again, the lessons learned and then forgotten, the failures and successes, the joys and heartbreak.” You’ll read your story in this beautiful book. Then you’ll wake up, determined to embrace life, your life, broken as it is, and to make some meaning out of the broken pieces. Hatching Charlie: A Psychotherapist's Tale by Charles Creath McCormack is a book for everyone, because there is a fragment of each of us in some of the pages.
