Dr Ruffalo is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine in Orlando, Florida, and adjunct assistant professor of psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts. He currently serves as codirector of the Psychotherapy Track at the UCF/HCA Orlando Psychiatry Residency Program and is the Founding Editor of The Carlat Psychotherapy Report. He is a psychotherapist in private practice in Tampa, Florida.
Toward a New Psychiatric Pluralism: The Resurgence of Psychotherapy
July 18th 2025The strong emphasis on neuroscience in the 1990s and early 2000s is now giving way to a new psychiatric pluralism, one that increasingly views psychotherapy as real treatment and psychosocial factors as fundamental to understanding the causes and basic nature of psychopathology.
The Making of Adult ADHD: The Rapid Rise of a Novel Psychiatric Diagnosis
September 11th 2023"The history of psychiatry is a history of fads in theory, diagnosis, and treatment. Such rapid shifts in conceptualization—such as the emergence of the concept of adult ADHD—almost always warrant informed critical examination."