Relieving Suffering Through Insight Into Our Existential Situation

The Oxford Contemplative Science Research Program aims to reenvision psychiatry as a first-principles science of the relief of human suffering, grounded both in time-tested ancient wisdom and in cutting-edge science.

We take contemplative insight seriously and seek to understand how such insight can be used to scale human flourshing.

We conduct neuroscientific research into conscious experience using tools such as brain imaging, computational modelling, phenomenology, and philosophical investigation.