Membership
Membership
$150/year ($100 for students with valid student ID)
Purpose and Principles
ISEPP's purpose is to (1) provide a legal, ethical, and emotional haven for professionals, academicians, and consumers who uphold its principles; and (2) to serve as a public platform for facilitating a critical examination of and conversation about these principles. ISEPP is not a social justice or consumer rights organization, per se, and it does not concern itself with the many forms of corporate and government misconduct outside of the specifics of the following principles:- ISEPP uses sound scientific methodology and critical reasoning to address its purpose.
- ISEPP maintains that difficult emotions, thoughts, and behaviors not resulting from physiological disease processes reflect individualized meanings and choices to be understood, not symptoms of pathology or dysfunction to be treated.
- ISEPP asserts that physiological disease processes causing mental or behavioral symptoms 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 perceptions, beliefs, values, experiences, distress, actions, and consequences thereof.
Community & Connection
- Join a diverse group of people critical of the conventional mental health industry
- Learn about non-medical ways to help people in distress
- Share your views, be heard, and make change happen
- Follow us and participate in the discussion at our website, social media platforms, and member Listserv
ISEPP Journal
- Online access to our peer-reviewed journal Ethical Human Psychology & Psychiatry: An International Journal of Critical Inquiry
ISEPP Annual Conference
- Meet in person once a year with fellow ISEPP members for camaraderie and to learn about cutting edge ideas and alternatives to the mainstream mental health system
ISEPP Webinars
- Attend online webinars on important topics
- CEUs available
Online Referral Listing
- Join the growing list of practitioners and other professionals available for consultation
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