Advice for Facing Cancer and Other Crises

Published: March 3, 2021, 5:08 p.m.

Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz, psychotherapist on the faculty of the Westchester Center for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, cancer survivor, Zen practitioner and co-author (with Marsha Linehan) of Coping with Cancer: DBT Skills to Manage Your Emotions--and Balance Uncertainty with Hope (The Guilford Press, 2021), talks about the use of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) as a way of facing the psychologically toll of a cancer diagnosis -- or other crisis.