Research
Recent studies show that one in five Americans lives with mental illness, and one in three reports serious loneliness. The twofold crises of mental health and loneliness demand a renewed, creative zeal to inform more integrated ways of caring for the human person.
Bridging the disciplines of theology, neuroscience, and psychology, the Fiat Program advances research on mental health and the human person to inform pastoral care. Beginning with the lived experience of persons and families with mental illness, the Fiat Program’s research considers how Church communities can foster hope and deepening communion amidst the isolating nature of mental illness and the broader sociocultural phenomenon of loneliness. Scholarship brings the Church’s tradition of prayer and its sacramental and communal life into dialogue with neuroscientific and psychological understandings of illness and flourishing.
To learn more about Fiat’s research, see our recent conferences:
- “Do this in Memory of Me:” Trauma and the Healing of Memory from Interdisciplinary Perspectives
- Fiat’s Inaugural Symposium on Faith and Metal Health