Mark L. Ruffalo, M.S.W., D.Psa., is a psychotherapist in private practice and serves as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine, where he is Director of Psychotherapy Training in the adult psychiatry residency program. He is also Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine and on the faculty of the New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis. He has trained in psychiatric social work at the University of Pittsburgh, transference-focused psychotherapy at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and good psychiatric management at McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He practices general psychodynamic psychotherapy with special interest in the treatment of schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder.
