| Office: |
Sheppard and Enoch Pratt, Gibson Building
6525 N. Charles St., Ste 239
Towson, MD 21204
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| Phone: |
(410) 938-8499
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| Cell Phone: |
(410) 218-4384
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| E-mail: |
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| Web Site: |
couplestherapybaltimore.com
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| Profession: |
Clinical Social Worker/Therapist
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| Services: |
Psychotherapy/Counseling
Individual, couples and family therapy
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| Practice Description: |
Life is an obstacle course that challenges each of us to grow as individuals and as part of a couple. The challenges are often difficult to formulate but none-the-less felt in dissatisfaction, anger, anxiety or depression. No one is immune from such experiences; they are part of being a human being. Yet, they can become so intense that we can lose our way. At such times, a therapist can be useful, a person who can genuinely relate to your problem and help guide you or your marriage through to greater clarity and relief.
In addition to my thirty-five years of experience, I teach and write about the "how to" and "why to" of therapy for other therapists and have spoken to professional audiences across the United States and Canada (see below). I believe strongly in the importance of humor and in the curative aspects of helping people normalize rather than pathologize their or their mates difficulties.
Book Reviews of Charles C McCormack's "Treating Borderline States in Marriage":
"This spellbinding volume represents the accumulated wisdom of a gifted therapist who has developed an extraordinarily effective treatment approach to working with couples who have personality disorders, one that seamlessly integrates the interpersonal with the intrapsychic. A highly original and creative thinker, McCormack has synthesized the contributions of object relations theorists like Klein, Fairbairn, Winnicott, and Ogden to inform his understanding of, and approach to, these difficult and complex patients. Respectfully framing their unrelenting provocativeness as a desperate attempt to extract from the object (be it partner or therapist) a means of healing past unresolved traumas, the author encourages the therapist to put forth, for mutual observation and understanding, the countertransferential responses these patients elicit. McCormack's extensive use of clinical vignettes to illustrate his treatment method demonstrates that we are dealing with a master clinician who, with humility and compassion, is able to go where other therapists, less wise and courageous, fear to tread. Inspired and inspiring, this important book should be required reading for any practitioner who works with personality-disordered patients."
Martha Stark, M.D., Author: "Working with Resistance" and "Modes of Therapeutic Action."
"A therapist's faithful companion along a hard road, this book guides us toward finding a much wider scope for using ourselves as therapeutic instruments. It is that rarity, a 'how to' book that is also a 'why to' book', one that makes clear how ultimate the stakes are in therapy. McCormack's writing lives because he has lived what he writes. His anecdotes surge off the page, sometimes so charged with the elemental pain of being a person that it takes your breath away. He asks deep questions about the rules of engagement with couples in trouble and troubles in couples. This is a book to live with, to learn from, and to lean on."
Roger A. Lewin, M.D., Author: "Creative collaboration in Psychotherapy."
"This book is a gift to all therapists who battle to help seriously disturbed couples...Throughout, McCormack's own struggle to help patients grow, rather than destroy what they hold most dear, is the integrating force... It offers a lighthouse on the path to therapeutic survival and safe harbor."
David Scharff, M.D., Co-Director, Internations Insitute of Object Relations Therapy
Curriculum Vitae
Charles Creath McCormack, MA, MSW, LCSW-C
Personal Information
Business Address: 6525 North Charles Street, Suite 239; Towson, Maryland 21204
Business Phone: (410) 938-8499
E-mail: ccmccormack@aol.com
Education:
August 1967- 1971. Loyola College of Baltimore. BA Economics.
August 1974- May 1976. Loyola College of Baltimore. MA Psychology
January 1978-January 1980. University of Maryland. MSW.
Post Graduate Education and Training:
1979-1980. Sheppard-Pratt Hospital (SEPH). Videotaped Group Therapy Training and Supervision.
1981- 1984. SEPH. Structural Family Therapy In-Vivo Training Group.
1983- 1984. University of Maryland and SEPH. Strategic Family Therapy Training Program.
1983-1989. SEPH. Long-term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Case Study Group.
1990 –1991 SEPH. Multiple Personality Disorder Study Group.
1990 – 1992. SEPH. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Supervision.
2003-2006 The New Directions: Writing and Critical Thinking From a Psychoanalytic Perspective of the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis, Inc.
Certifications:
Board Certified in Clinical Social Work, (NBECSW), February 1987 (#8520).
Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work (ABECSW), January 1993 (#11307)
-2004.
Licensed Certified Social Worker - Clinical, Maryland, March 1980 (#2920).
Employment History:
1975-1977. Counselor. Comprehensive Drug Abuse Program, SEPH.
1977-1979. Program Coordinator. Day/Evening Adult Treatment Center, SEPH.
1980-1982. Family Therapist. Adult Day/Evening Hospital, SEPH.
1980-1981. Psychologist II. Family Violence Treatment Program. North Baltimore Center.
1982-1988. Social Worker I, Long-term Adult Inpatient Services, SEPH.
1988-1990 Consultant. Dept. of Social Services Sex Offenders Unit, Baltimore County MD.
1988-1992. The Senior Social Worker of Long-term Adult Inpatient Division, SEPH.
1992-Present. Private practice of individual and couples therapy. Consultation. Supervision.
2000-2005. Therapist, Pro Bono Counseling Project.
Professional Memberships:
1984-1991. Clinical Member American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (AAMFT).
1981-Present. National Association of Social Workers.
1985-Present. Maryland Society of Clinical Social Work
1991-2000 Charter Member, The Baltimore Society for Psychoanalytic Studies.
1999-2004. National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers, Ins.
Honors and Awards:
1994 "Clinician of the Year": Maryland Society of Clinical Social Workers.
Teaching Service:
1983-1986. Field Instructor Smith College School of Social Work Masters Program.
1989-2004 Faculty Group Leader. The Washington School of Psychiatry Couples and Family Therapy Annual Conferences.
1989-1995. The Washington School of Psychiatry Couples and Family Therapy Training Program.
1992-1996. Organizer/Instructor. Experiential Learning Group: Weekly training of object relations theory and practice.
1992-2003 Teaching and Supervisory Faculty, Residency Training Program. SEPH.
Spring 1994. Instructor. University of Maryland School of Social Work. “Treating Borderline States: Therapeutic Interventions on the Road from Survival to the Development of the Self.”
Fall 1994. Instructor. University Maryland School of Social Work. “Projective Identification in Couples Therapy: The Therapist’s Use of Self.”
1994 Field Instructor Smith College School of Social Work Doctoral Program.
1994-1996. Faculty. American HealthCare Institute. Advanced Couples Therapy. Workshops conducted in Baltimore, Md.; Washington, D.C.; Columbus, Ohio; Pittsburgh, PA; Ocean City, MD; Chicago, ILL; New York, NY; Atlantic City, NJ.
1994-1997. Twice-yearly workshops in Charlottesville, Va.
1996: Grandrounds Charter Hospital, Charlottesville, Va.
2001-2004 Guest Faculty. The Clinical Social Work Institute, Inc.
2002-2003 Clinical Assistant Professor , University of Maryland Medical School, Department of Psychiatry.
Publications:
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.”
1990 Keynote speaker. Miami Children’s Hospital, the Dade County Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, and the Dade County Society of Clinical Social Work. “Psychodynamics of the Borderline/Schizoid Marriage: The Holding Environment as an Essential Treatment Construct.” Miami, Fla.
1991 Keynote speaker. The Third Annual Diane Davis Memorial Lecture. The Georgia Society of Clinical Social Work. “Projective and Introjective Identification in the Borderline-Schizoid Marriage.”
1991 Grand Rounds. Ridgeview Institute. “The Use of Primitive Defenses in the Borderline Couple.” Atlanta, Ga.
1992 Keynote speaker. The Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for The Advancement of Clinical Social Work. “The Potential Space in the Treatment of the Borderline Couple.” Toronto, Canada.
1992 Keynote speaker. The Baltimore Society for Psychoanalytic Studies. “The Role of the Therapist in the Treatment of the Borderline Couple: From Subjective Object to Objective Subject.”
1993 The Washington School of Psychiatry, Fourteenth Annual Conference on Psychoanalytic Object Relations Approach to Couples and Family Therapy: Mourning and Containment. “On Being a Couple of Beings.”
1993 Grand Rounds. Maine Medical Center and The State Hospital of Maine. “The Role of Couples and Family Therapy in the Treatment of Personality Disorder.” Portland, Maine.
1994 Sunday Rounds. The John Stupak Show. “Intimacy and Marriage.”
1996. Keynote speaker. The Eighth Annual Helene Narot Memorial Lecture.
The Clinical Social Work Association of South Florida, Inc. “Betwixt and Between: An Object Relations Approach to the Borderline Marriage.” Miami, Fla.
1996 Keynote speaker. The Florida Conference Pastoral Counseling Network Annual Conference. “Shadows of The Heart: Applying Object Relations and Theological Reflection to Couples Therapy.” Orlando, Fla.
1996 Grand Rounds. Charter Hospital, Charlottesville, VA. “The Effects of Trauma on Couples and Families. “
1997 Keynote speaker. Chesapeake Health Education Program, Inc. Perry
Point VA Hospital. “An Insight Oriented Approach to Treatment Resistant Couples.”
1999 The Washington School of Psychiatry, Twentieth Annual Conference on Psychoanalytic Object Relations Approach to Couples and Family Therapy: Love Found and Lost in the Lives of Couples and Families. “The Gift: From Love, Hate, and Aggression to Love, Hate, and Reparation.”
2000 Keynote speaker. Guest Speaker Series. Sheppard-Pratt Hospital. “Beyond
Neutrality: The Treatment of Borderline States in Marriage. “
2000 Keynote speaker. The Baltimore Society for Psychoanalytic Studies. “The Use of Separate Dyadic Interactions: The Treatment of Borderline States in Marriage.”
2001 Keynote speaker. Spring Conference of The Philadelphia Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology. “You Can’t Get There From Here: The Treatment of Borderline States in Marriage.”
2001 Keynote speaker. Insight Forum. University of Maryland Continuing Professional Education. “From Insight to Relationship: The Therapist’s Use of Self Treating Borderline States in Marriage.”
2002 Mark Steiner Show, National Public Radio. “Urban Tribes.”
2002 Mark Steiner Show, National Public Radio. “Relationships.”
2002 Keynote Speaker. The Philadelphia Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology Reading Seminar. Swathmore College, PA
2004 Three Session Series: Understanding and Treating Couple Relationships. University of Maryland, School of Social Work, Continuing Professional Education.
2005 3 hour workshop on Borderline States in Marriage. Pastoral Counseling Services of Maryland. Baltimore, MD
2005 3 hour presentation. Personality Disorder as a Truncation of Development: Understanding and Treatment. Family Services, Seattle, WA.
2005 Keynote Speaker. Full day presentation entitled: Before and Beyond Words: Finding the Individual in the Couple and the Couple in the Individual. Seattle, WA. Co-sponsored by the Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study and the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Seattle, WA
2005 2 hour presentation on Difficult to Treat Couples and Individuals to a study group of the Vancouver Psychoanalytic Society.
2005 Two three hour workshops on the understanding and treatment of borderline states. Jewish Family Services, Baltimore, MD.
2007 3 hour presentation, “Implications for Treatment of the Borderline Mental State” Maryland Society of Clinical Social Work.
2007 3 hour presentation, “Before and Beyond Words: The Impact of Countertransference in Couples Therapy.” The Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Washington D.C.
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Practice Specialties or Interests:
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Relationship Issues
Personality Disorders
Depression
Adjustment Disorder
Anger Management
Anxiety Disorders/Phobias
Bipolar Disorder
Dissociative Disorders
Gay/Lesbian Issues
Grief/Loss
Impaired Professionals
Impulse Control Disorders
Infidelity
Parenting Issues
Personal Growth
Self-esteem
Sexual Dysfunction
Stress Management
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| Age Specialties: |
Adolescents
Adults
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| Session Formats: |
Individual
Couples
Family
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| Treatment Approaches: |
Existential/Humanistic
Family Systems
Integrative
Interpersonal
Intersubjective
Object Relations
Psychoanalytic
Psychodynamic
Psychoeducational
Self Psychology
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| Education: |
MA, LOYOLA COLLEGE, 1974
MSW, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, 1980
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| License #: |
2920 |
| License State: |
Maryland |
| Professional Affiliations: |
 | National Association of Social Workers | | Maryland Society of Clinical Social Workers |
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| Fee Schedule: |
$150 per 50 minute session. |
| Accepted Insurance: |
Any plan that provides for out of network coverage
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| Insurance and Billing Instructions: |
Covered as a non-network participating provider. Accept most major credit cards. |
| Additional Comments: |
Nominated Clinical Social Worker of the Year by the Maryland Society of Clinical Social Work
Author of "Treating Borderline States in Marriage: Dealing with oppositionalism, ruthless aggression and severe resistance" viewable on Amazon.com.
Author of several articles and a book chapter on the treatment of difficult to treat patients.
Former:Teaching and supervisory faculty sheppard-enoch pratt hospital; Clinical Member AAMFT; Charter Member, The Baltimore Society for Psychoanalytic Studies; National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers, Ins.; Guest Faculty Washington School of Psychiatry's Family and Couples Therapy Program. Present nation wide and in Canada to professional audiences on the provision of individual and couples therapy. |
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Additional Information
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| In Practice Since: 1975 |
| Gender: Male |
| Accepting New Clients: Yes |
| Sliding Fee Scale: Yes |
| Prescribe Medication: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes |
| Public Transportation: Yes |
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