Journal of Futures Studies, May 2006, 10(4): 39 44 The human dynamism implied by the concept of Thrival is of particular concern to futurists engaged in exploring our human potential. This potential is not simply a matter of being able to chart a course and realise it; it is the ability to engage the multidimensional facets of out humanness in order to create maps to preferable futures that ret...

THE PLAN of my oration is to consider three questions, by whom is Osler transmitted, by what means and to what end? And because Osler is praised as a humanist, we shall need to examine that chameleon word, on our way to the finish that crowns the work-the moral. My title, Osler transmitted, well understood by Oslerolators, comes from Osler's classification of authors as Creators, Transmuters an...

There are many forms of psychotherapies, each distinctive in its own way. From the origins of psychotherapy, it has been suggested that psychotherapy is effective through factors that are common to all therapies. In this article, I suggest that the commonalities that are at the core of psychotherapy are related to evolved human characteristics, which include (a) making sense of the world, (b) i...

In this thoughtful little essay, Dr. Fulton expresses his concern over the ever-widening gap between the humanities and the sciences in modern education. Recent great discoveries in science and medicine may result in still more emphasis on the technological, at the expense of the cultural, training of men for the practice of medicine, itself "a great humanistic enterprise." As one means of brid...