International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology

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The International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (ICSPP) is a nonprofit (503c) 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 psychiatrist Dr. Peter Breggin and his wife, Ginger Breggin. ICSPP publishes the scholarly journal, Ethical Human Sciences and Services.

ICSPP is concerned with the impact of mental health theories on public policy and the effects of therapeutic practices upon individual well-being, personal freedom, and family and community values. ICSPP has focused on delivering warnings about the potential dangers of psychiatric drugs, electroshock, psychosurgery, and the biological theories of psychiatry, and alerting the media and the public to the dangers of treating social, interpersonal and personal problems essentially as though they were strictly medical diseases. ICSPP contends the mental health field itself suffers a collective form of cognitive impairment, and have evolved to become completely lacking in the application of fundamental health care tenets (e.g., 'first, do no harm', 'informed consent', 'patient autonomy').

ICSPP has been around for over 25 years and has hundreds of researchers, psychiatrists, neurologists, psychologists, social workers, attorneys, professors, adminstrators and teachers to add to their membership list. Many of them have been pivotal in FDA changes, media releases and establishing treatment centers.