International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology

The International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (ICSPP) is a nonprofit antipsychiatry research and educational network whose focus is the critical study of the mental health professions and their consumer markets. ICSPP was originally founded in 1971 by controversial psychiatrist Peter Breggin. The organization also publishes the journal Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry.

ICSPP's stated mandate includes "maintaining the highest possible principles and scientific standards in psychology and psychiatry" and "seeks to raise the level of scientific knowledge and ethical discourse, while empowering professionals who are devoted to principled human sciences and services unsullied by professional and economic interests."

ICSPP is concerned with the impact of mental health theories on public policy. Specifically, ICSPP has focused on delivering warnings about the potential dangers of psychiatric drugs, electroshock treatment or ECT and psychosurgery.

ICSPP has hundreds of researchers, psychiatrists, neurologists, psychologists, social workers, attorneys, professors and teachers in their membership list. Some of them have been pivotal in FDA changes, media releases and establishing treatment centers.

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