Ask the Author: Charles C. McCormack
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Charles C. McCormack
Given my nomadic childhood and abandonment to a boarding school in Strasbourg, France I felt confused by the world and how it worked, as well as my place in it. In that sense I've been a mystery to myself without fully knowing it spent my entire life trying to figure who I was or wanted to be and asking myself "What's the point of it all?" These are the keystone questions, the mystery, to which my book "Hatching Charlie: A Psychotherapist's Tale" is the response.
Charles C. McCormack
My favorite psychological thinker is D.W. Winnicott, both a pediatrician and psychoanalyst now long deceased. Although he was criticized by some for not addressing the role of aggression he had a way of embracing the reader in a firm hold. Indeed, it is he that coined many psychoanalytic terms such as the holding environment, potential space as being the area in which real relationship and spirituality (among other things) occurs, the "good enough mother", the role delinquency can have as an indication of hope. He also is said to have welcomed patients into his home office and to have served them tea. In other words, he treated them like valued guests and made them at home. What else need I say?
Charles C. McCormack
To date I feel driven by the need to get something out. In the beginning of writing I never know what that something is. It is the writing itself which reveals it.
Charles C. McCormack
When long term psychiatric inpatient stays were no longer possible due to denial by insurance companies I felt driven to write of my time there, of what I had learned, and of what I could pass on to outpatient therapists to aid them in their work with difficult to treat clients in particular, but also for clients in general. At the end of the day, this book describes the workings of the human psyche and pertains to us all.
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