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Resilience Facing Death: A Tribute to Dr. Steven M. Southwick

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2023

Steven M. Southwick
Affiliation:
Yale University Medical School, Connecticut
Dennis S. Charney
Affiliation:
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
Jonathan M. DePierro
Affiliation:
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
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Our friend, colleague, and coauthor Dr. Steven Southwick passed away on April 20, 2022. In this epilogue devoted to his memory, we share Dr. Southwick's writings in the last months of his life focused on how he lived the very resilience factors that he spent decades studying. Steve's friends, family, and treating physicians share the impact he had on them as he connected to love and friendship, meaning, physical activity, and cognitive flexibility. In closing the chapter Dr. Southwick says of resilience: “Do the best you can with what you've got.

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Resilience
The Science of Mastering Life's Greatest Challenges
, pp. 229 - 238
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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