Charles C. McCormack, MA, MSW, LCSW-C holds masters degrees in psychology and in clinical social work. Over the past forty-plus years, he has worked in a variety of psychiatric settings covering sexual abuse, family violence, drug treatment and was the Senior Social Worker of Long-Term Inpatient Services at Sheppard-Pratt Hospital in Baltimore. 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 was the first social worker invited to join the teaching faculty of Sheppard-Pratt and the first invited to become guest faculty of the Washington School of Psychiatry’s Psychoanalytic Object Relations Family and Couples Therapy Training Program without first going through the program. He was a field instructor for Smith College's Masters and Doctoral programs in social work and for The University of Maryland School of Social Work. In 1994 Mr. McCormack was named Clinician of the Year by the Maryland Society of Clinical Social Workers. In 2000 his book "Treating Borderline States in Marriage: Dealing with Oppositionalism, Ruthless Aggression, and Severe Resistance" was published and is used in couples therapy training programs. In December 2016 Mr. McCormack self-published an autobiography "Hatching Charlie: A Psychotherapist’s Tale" which interweaves the story of his unusual life, with becoming a psychotherapist. He has since re-written Hatching Charlie twice, each revision lending greater clarity and understanding like a photograph coming into full focus in the third and final edition As Happy As I Can Stand. In 2021 McCormack published Essence. Although Hatching Charlie met with critical acclaim, McCormack completely rewrote it, so much so that he published it as apart from the series as a stand-alone title. Since then he re-edited and retitled Essence into "Healing of a Psychotherapist" and replaced the cover. In 2023 the University of Maryland School of Social Work awarded Charlie the Emeritus Award for a lifetime of contributions and innovations to the Social Work Profession. McCormack maintains a small private practice in Aberdeen, Maryland where he lives on the Bush River with his wife Janet.