Purpose

• To provide a legal, ethical, and emotional haven for professionals who uphold its principles and attempt change from within the conventional system of psychiatry;
• To serve as a public platform for facilitating a critical examination of and conversation about these principles and associated ethical concerns.
• ISEPP is not a social justice or consumer rights organization and it does not concern itself with the many forms of corporate and government misconduct outside the following principles.

Principles

• ISEPP maintains that difficult emotions, thoughts, and behaviors reflect individualized meanings and choices to be understood, not symptoms of pathology or dysfunction to be corrected through treatment.
• ISEPP asserts that physiological disease processes with associated mental or behavioral signs and symptoms (e.g., hypothyroidism; infection; Parkinson's) are not “mental” illnesses; they are physiological illnesses and medical matters outside the primary focus of psychiatry and psychology.
• ISEPP supports the doctrine of informed consent, respect for individual dignity, and freedom of choice, regardless of the individual’s beliefs, values, and experiences.
• ISEPP uses sound scientific methodology and critical reasoning to fulfill its purpose.