Research
My research at UC San Diego explores imagination, consciousness, contemplative science, and the transformative potential of human experience. I collaborate across disciplines to investigate how psychological, contemplative, and psychedelic practices shape well-being, meaning, and human flourishing.
Research Centers & Labs
A transdisciplinary center exploring imagination as a fundamental human capacity across science, technology, arts, and culture. 🔗 https://imagination.ucsd.edu/
Advancing the scientific understanding and clinical application of mindfulness and contemplative practices.
🔗 https://cih.ucsd.edu/mindfulness
Investigating the therapeutic, psychological, and neuroscientific dimensions of psychedelic experiences.
🔗 https://cpr.ucsd.edu
Curriculum Vitae & Biosketch
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Project Highlights
Spiritual and Religious Competencies Project
Recently completed, the Spiritual and Religious Competencies Project aimed to improve mental health care and promote human flourishing by ensuring every mental health professional possesses the basic competencies to attend to their clients’ religious faith or spirituality in clinical practice.
UCSD REACH Center for Translational Science in Whole Person Health
Dr. Vieten serves as Co-PI of the NCCIH-funded UCSD REACH Center, which unites integrative health institutions to expand research capacity, develop clinician-scientist research careers, share knowledge, and advance the field of whole-person, integrative health.