
More than any other medical specialty, we sometimes feel compelled, and empowered, to treat patients against their will. With this comes two great responsibilities.
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.

More than any other medical specialty, we sometimes feel compelled, and empowered, to treat patients against their will. With this comes two great responsibilities.

The long-lasting impact of psychoanalysis on American psychiatry should continue to be taught and celebrated, if only as a testament to the human ability to seek understanding and find meaning in man’s suffering.