Spring 2026 Workshop
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description: REGISTRATION IS CLOSED Borderline Personality Disorder as Paradox: A Contemporary Psychodynamic Reformulation Presented by Mark L. Ruffalo, LCSW April 12, 2026 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Live Workshop via Zoom 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 interests span psychoanalysis, phenomenological psychopathology, and psychiatric nosology, and he has attempted to bridge classic communication theory with object relations theory in understanding borderline personality disorder. He has advanced the hypothesis that borderline personality disorder is fundamentally a disorder of paradox or self-contradiction. He trained at the University of Pittsburgh and its affiliated psychiatric hospital, the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (transference-focused psychotherapy), and the Gunderson Personality Disorders Institute at McLean Hospital (general psychiatric management). 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 currently serves as Director of Psychotherapy Training at the UCF/HCA Orlando psychiatry residency program and is Founding Editor of The Carlat Psychotherapy Report. Workshop Description In this lecture, Mark L. Ruffalo, LCSW, will present a contemporary psychodynamic reformulation of borderline personality disorder through the lens of paradox and double bind communication. Drawing upon classic communication theory, object relations, and emerging empirical findings, he will argue that contradictory and entrapping early relational experiences become internalized as structural features of the borderline personality. The workshop will explore how paradox functions as an organizing principl…
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