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`The music seemed somehow to comfort me, like something soothing pain'
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I can see it now. I was three years old. I can see the piano I
played and I can see the gramophone player which I also played
endlessly, endlessly, endlessly the same music, all the time my
mother was in hospital.
I can't see any particular significance in the music itself - it
was Humperdinck's "Brother, Come Dance With Me" from Hansel and
Gretel; so that isn't important, although when I hear it even
nowadays it has a very emotional effect on me. But the fact that I
needed music in every form was important.
I was very close to my mother and at that stage I was the only
child. My sister had ...
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A New Stoicism.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics
; BECKER, Lawrence. A New Stoicism. Princeton: Princeton University...explicitly this vein within ancient Stoicism (p. 23). Chapter 2 seeks to correct...self-mastery. He distances his new Stoicism from that of his ancient forerunners...
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STOICISM IS MORE THAN A STIFF UPPER LIP
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...MARCH 3 OP-ED COLUMN, "THE VIRTUE OF STOICISM," RAISES IMPORTANT CLINICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL...TRAUMA AND HOW WE TREAT IT. BUT TRUE STOICISM IS FAR MORE THAN KEEPING A STIFF UPPER...cognitive psychology. The basic tenet of stoicism was that emotions are judgments. When...
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Cultural stoicism and its impact on organizational agility: A proposition for military healthcare organizations
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; ...example of an external constraint is stoicism defined as [a sensory] "indifference to pleasure or pain." Cultural stoicism expands the scope of this construct...well-established that cultural stoicism is a relevant factor in why certain...
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Health: Health Check: Stoicism might save the NHS
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...but simply a matter of tolerance. Tolerance and stoicism are, indeed, qualities whose supply has diminished...stiff upper lips, a campaign to make coping cool and stoicism sexy. Stoicism, not monetarism, is the way to save the NHS. An...
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THE VIRTUE OF STOICISM
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; IN RECENT DECADES, STOICISM AND EMOTIONAL RESERVE, ONCE CONSIDERED...There can be such a thing as too much stoicism, and it's probably true that different...about their feelings. Who knows, stoicism may be coming back into vogue. Philosopher...
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Stoicism, safety concerns may limit pain management.(Geriatric Psychiatry)
Magazine article from: Clinical Psychiatry News
; ...to pain medications is low--fueled largely by patients' stoicism, beliefs about pain and aging, and concerns about safety...label, and hiding their nonadherence from family members. Stoicism was a common theme, he said, with patients minimizing their...
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Stoicism, safety issues may limit pain Tx in elderly.(Geriatric Medicine)
Magazine article from: Family Practice News
; ...adherence to pain medications is low fueled largely by patients' stoicism, beliefs about pain and aging, and concerns about safety...label, and hiding their nonadherence from family members. Stoicism was a common theme, he said, with patients minimizing their...
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In morally turbulent times, Stoicism makes a comeback Some finding comfort in ancient philosophy that stresses personal integrity
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; ...County, Calif., writer whose book on the Stoics has been revived of late. "Suddenly, interest in Stoicism has been galvanized." Stoicism was born three centuries before the birth of Jesus, when Zeno of Citium started his own school around...
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Older patients' stoicism hinders pain management.(Geriatrics)(Report)
Magazine article from: Internal Medicine News
; ...to pain medications is low--fueled largely by patients' stoicism, beliefs about pain and aging, and concerns about safety...label, and hiding their nonadherence from family members. Stoicism was a common theme, he said, with patients minimizing their...
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