Charles C McCormack

As Happy As I Can Stand: The Third Edition of Hatchin Charlie (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A psychological tour de force. McCormack was asked two questions by his children that unerringly targeted issues he had struggled with his entire life: "Who are you?" and "What is life about?" Hatching Charlie, his attempt to respond, rocketed him down a wormhole through time, his past made present. He re-lives the disruptions of military family life, family violence, the racism of the Jim Crowe South, and the tidal wave of fear and confusion when exiled to a boarding school in France as a child. With unalloyed frankness, McCormack, an award-winning psychotherapist, author, and lecturer, takes us into the mental illness in his own family, and the destructive influence of his cratered childhood upon his adulthood. During this journey, we go behind the scenes of psychiatric treatment, including a vivid portrayal of McCormack's experience in psychoanalysis and as a psychiatric social worker in a locked-door inpatient treatment unit. There, we become engulfed in penetrating horror and self-doubt when confronted with the suicide of several patients, as well as the profound sense of fulfillment experienced when able to help those who had been unable to help themselves. In his striving for happiness and meaning, McCormack arrives at the realization that there was an enduring block to happiness and that it resided within himself. Rejecting this self-limiting fate, he pecks away at the shells that confine him like a Russian nesting doll and discovers first-hand the hidden power of incomplete mourning to constrict happiness like English ivy strangles a tree. In this moving memoir, there is wisdom about life, love, and relationships that will bring tears to your eyes and a smile to your face.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Charles C McCormack
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780463154809
• Artikelnr.: 74352667

Autorenporträt

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...