The Foundation for Psychocultural Research: Home

The Foundation for Psychocultural Research (FPR) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation based in Los Angeles that supports and advances interdisciplinary research and scholarship at the intersection of biology, neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, anthropology, and related fields, with an emphasis on psychocultural factors. The FPR was founded in December 1999 with a gift from Robert B. Lemelson, a documentary filmmaker and psychological anthropologist on the UCLA faculty.

Through a series of workshops, conferences, and publications, the FPR brings scholars, researchers, and clinicians together to think across disciplinary boundaries and address issues of fundamental clinical and social concern. The FPR is also a key supporter of the Culture, Brain, and Development Program at Hampshire College and the FPR-UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Upcoming in January 2010:

2010 Conference

Conference Cultural and Biological Contexts of Psychiatric Disorder: Implications for Diagnosis and Treatment
SOLD OUT

January 22–24, 2010
UCLA Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium
635 Charles Young Drive South
Los Angeles, CA 90095 Download map

Understanding Trauma

Publication of Formative Experiences: The Interaction of Caregiving, Culture, and Developmental Psychobiology

January 2010
Cambridge University Press

The Foundation for Psychocultural Research makes grants only to pre-selected educational organizations and to postgraduates through the FPR postdoctoral fellowship programs at UCLA. The FPR does not accept unsolicited requests for funding.