Professor of Psychology, Bryant University, Rhode Island
Joseph Trunzo is a professor of psychology at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island, and a clinical psychologist. He is the author of Living Beyond Lyme: Reclaim Your Life From Lyme Disease and Chronic Illness (2018). He lives in Rhode Island.

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Psychiatry and psychotherapy
Sailing into the storm
Acceptance and commitment therapy teaches us how to live a values-driven life even in the face of dark emotions and trauma
Joseph Trunzo

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Illness and disease
The best life possible
Living with chronic illness is hard. But there are psychological techniques that make it possible to thrive even when ill
Joseph Trunzo
The best life possible
Joseph TrunzoThis is very touching and relates what I hope comes across in the essay in a more real, powerful, and sustantive way than I ever could. Thank you so much for sharing your experience. You and your son are lucky to have had each other.