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A non-profit corporation (501.C-3), founded in December 1999, for the purpose of supporting and advancing interdisciplinary research projects and scholarship at the intersection of psychology, culture, neuroscience and psychiatry.

Our mission is to support and advance interdisciplinary research and scholarship at the intersection of psychology, culture, neuroscience and psychiatry, with an emphasis on Psychocultural factors as central, not peripheral.

New Release:

Understanding Trauma: Integrating Biological, Clinical, and Cultural Perspectives

Laurence Kirmayer, Robert Lemelson,
Mark Barad (Eds.)

Cambridge University Press

BOOK IN PROCESS:
Formative Experiences: The Interaction of Caregiving, Culture, and Developmental Psychobiology
Carol Worthman, Paul Plotsky, Daniel S. Schechter, Constance Cummings (Eds.)
Cambridge University Press

The FPR Goals

Change the culture of research by funding programs and scholars who attempt to link levels of analysis;
Increase the degree to which research on human health, development, and well-being integrates Psychocultural and neurobiological influences;
Strengthen the theoretical and methodological tools required to facilitate the integration of Psychocultural and neuroscientific measures and constructs;
Increase the visibility of such integrative research, both within the academy, and outside;
Train the next generation of scientists capable of conducting research that integrates Psychocultural and neuroscientific influences;
Increase the public awareness of the importance of such integrative research

The FPR was founded in December 1999 by a gift from Robert Lemelson, Ph.D.

The Foundation for Psychocultural Research makes grants only to pre-selected educational organizations, and to graduate fellows through the FPR postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA. The FPR does not accept unsolicited requests for funds.