Florida Psychiatric Society (FPS)

The Florida Psychiatric Society will continuously improve the ability of its members to provide quality treatment for persons with mental illnesses.

Florida Psychiatric Society is the professional organization for all of Florida's psychiatrists from Key West to Pensacola. The activities of the FPS are coordinated from their staff office in Tallahassee, Florida. The Council directs the activities of the Executive Director. Staff duties in support of those activities are then assigned by the Executive Director. The FPS also contracts for the services of their Government Relations Consultants, the registered lobbyists for the society.

Mission and Philosophy:
The mission and philosophy of the Florida Psychiatric Society are clearly addressed in its Articles of Incorporation, Article II, Section 1:

Section 1. "The purposes of the Florida Psychiatric Society are to foster the science and progress of psychiatry, in cooperation with and as a constituent part of the American Psychiatric Association; to serve as an influence toward the maintenance of high professional, clinical, educational, research and administrative standards; to provide appropriate services to the members of the Florida Psychiatric Society, and to assist the American Psychiatric Association in promoting its purposes, which are:
a) to improve the treatment, rehabilitation, and care of persons with mental illnesses, developmental disabilities, and emotional disorders
b) to promote research, professional education in psychiatry and allied fields, and the prevention of psychiatric disorders;
c) to advance the standards of all psychiatric services and facilities;
d) to foster the cooperation of all who are concerned with the medical, psychological, social, and legal aspects of mental health and illness;
e) to make psychiatric knowledge available to other practitioners of medicine, to scientists in other fields of knowledge, and to the public, and
f) to promote the best interests of patients and of those actually or potentially making use of mental health services."

The FPS is an independent organization, a component of their national parent organization, and the parent of their chapter organizations. The success of FPS is the result of their ability to develop and maintain effective relationships with their members, local chapters, patient advocacy groups, the American Psychiatric Association, the Florida Medical Association, the Florida Legislature and public policy makers.