Mark L. Ruffalo

Psychotherapy and Consultation

Events


Below is a partial list of prior and upcoming events and speaking engagements.

2026

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

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

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 lecture), 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 lecture). 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 lecture). 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 lecture). 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 lecture). St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON.
May 17: "The Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia: Insights from Silvano Arieti" (Psychiatry Grand Rounds lecture). 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 lecture). 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 lecture). University of Central Florida psychiatry residency program, Kissimmee, FL.