Mark L. Ruffalo LCSW
About
Mark L. Ruffalo, LCSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice in Tampa, Florida, and serves as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine. His main interests include the history of psychiatry, particularly mid-20th-century American psychiatry; the conceptualization of mental illness; and the psychodynamic treatment of borderline personality disorder and schizophrenia.
His recent work has been on the object relations theory of borderline personality disorder, which he has described as fundamentally a disorder of paradox or self-contradiction. He is the Director of Psychotherapy Training at the UCF psychiatry residency program.
Ruffalo has trained at the University of Pittsburgh, the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and the Gunderson Personality Disorders Institute at McLean Hospital. He has published previously in the American Journal of Psychotherapy, the Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, and the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. He is the developer of the Borderline Personality Disorder Inventory (BPD-I) and co-developer of the Psychopathology Refracted into Seven Modalities (PRiSM) psychiatric diagnostic instrument.
The views expressed on this blog are solely his own and do not reflect the views of any of his employers. His website is drruffalo.com.
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