Stephen A. Ruffins,, PhD

New York, New York

PhD , University of Michigan, 1988

Selected Publications: "Relationship between family dynamics, depression, burden and likelihood of institutionalization of Alzheimer's disease patients by care givers, (with C. Torossian), J. of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 1999; "Our human condition: What we don't talk about when we talk about managed care" (with C. Morgan), in The traumatic bond between the psychotherapist and managed care, (K. Weisberger, ed.), 1999; Object relations in childhood and adolescence: The development of working representations, (with D. Westen et. al.), J. of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1990; Physical and sexual abuse in female adolescents with borderline personality disorders, (with D. Westen et. al.), Am. J. of Orthopsychiatry, 1990; Object relations in borderline adolescents, (with D. Westen et. al.), J. Am. Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 1990.

Awards: University of Michigan Research Fellowship Award, 1988; The Charles H. Revson Fellows Program on the Future of the City of New York, Appointed a Fellow, Columbia University, 1981-1982.

Memberships: American Psychological Association, Divisions of psychoanalysis and psychologists interested in religious issues; The Rapaport-Klein Study Group; Lacanian Clinical Forum.

Licensure: New York, Massachusetts

Special Interests: mother-infant interaction: research and psychotherapy; attachment theory and research; serious and persistent mental illness; psychoanalytic theories; group process in organizational life; culture and multiculturalism.