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Mark L. Ruffalo
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Faculty in Psychoanalysis

Curriculum vitae



(813) 694-4238 (office)


Department of Psychiatry

University of Central Florida; Tufts University (Adjunct)

10335 Cross Creek Boulevard
Suite 15
Tampa, FL 33647



Events


Below is a partial list of prior and upcoming events and speaking engagements. Inquiries regarding potential speaking opportunities may be directed by email.

Upcoming Grand Rounds

August 13, 2026: "Delusional Disorder: History and Psychotherapy." Centerstone Behavioral Hospital and Addiction Center, Bradenton, FL.

2026

July 8 and October 21: "Descriptive and Psychodynamic Aspects of Borderline Personality Disorder" (invited lecture). Wessex Deanery Core Psychiatry Training (Southampton Division), Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, England, UK.

June 26: "Basics of Differential Diagnosis" (invited lecture). One-year course in transference-focused psychotherapy, co-hosted by TFP-UK and the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, England, UK.

June 16: "Psychosis in Borderline Personality Disorder: An Object Relations Perspective" (Psychiatry Grand Rounds). Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA.

April 29: "History and Psychodynamics of Borderline Personality Disorder" (invited lecture). Manchester Medical Society, Manchester, England, UK.

April 12: "Borderline Personality Disorder as Paradox: A Contemporary Psychodynamic Reformulation" (invited lecture). New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis, Teaneck, NJ.

January 6: "Psychotherapy for Delusional Disorder: From Theory to Technique" (Psychiatry Grand Rounds), with Timothy Le, M.D. University of Central Florida psychiatry residency program, Kissimmee, FL.

2025

November 7: "Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Borderline Personality Disorder as a Disorder of Paradox" (conference presentation). Dreaming the Future (bienniel conference of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work), Austin, TX.
October 10: "Paradox and Self-Contradiction in Borderline Personality Disorder" (invited lecture). Philosophy of Psychiatry Interest Group, Mayo Clinic Psychiatry Residency Program, Rochester, MN.

October 2: "Borderline Personality Disorder in the Age of Complex PTSD" (Psychiatry Grand Rounds). New Hampshire Hospital, affiliated with the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Concord, NH.

2024

August 6: "Communication Dilemmas in Borderline Pathologies" (Psychiatry Grand Rounds). University of Central Florida psychiatry residency program, Kissimmee, FL.

2023

June 23: "Psychodynamic Approaches to Schizophrenia" (invited lecture). University College Dublin Academic Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Webinar Series, Dublin, IE.

April 28: "Psychodynamic Treatment of the Psychoses" (Psychiatry Grand Rounds). Northcoast Behavioral Healthcare (Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services), Northfield, OH.

2022

December 1: "Psychotherapy for Schizophrenia: An Underutilized Treatment" (invited lecture). University of Central Florida MEDTalk, Orlando, FL.
September 23: "The Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia: A Dynamic Approach" (Psychiatry Grand Rounds). St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON.
May 17: "The Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia: Insights from Silvano Arieti" (Psychiatry Grand Rounds). Wright State University Department of Psychiatry, Dayton, OH.

2021

September 18: "Befriending the Schizophrenic Other: Revisiting Arieti on Therapeutic Friendship and Countertransference" (conference presentation), with Steven Wykstra, Ph.D. Psychology and the Other, Cambridge, MA.
August 3: "Silvano Arieti: Revisiting His Work on Schizophrenia 40 Years Later" (Psychiatry Grand Rounds). University of Central Florida psychiatry residency program, Kissimmee, FL.

2019

September 12: "From Freud to Fluoxetine: A History of Twentieth Century Psychiatry" (Psychiatry Grand Rounds). University of Central Florida psychiatry residency program, Kissimmee, FL.

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