The Illinois Psychiatric Society (IPS) is a professional organization representing approximately 1500 physician members trained in the treatment of mental illness.

As a District Branch of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), the Illinois Psychiatric Society has served as the voice of psychiatry in Illinois for more than 60 years.

Mission Statement
The objectives of the Illinois Psychiatric Society shall be to promote the welfare of all those with mental illness and to foster the medically based principles of psychiatry.

The Society shall collaborate with the American Psychiatric Association in promoting its objectives:
	to improve the treatment, rehabilitation, and care of the mentally ill, the mentally retarded, and the emotionally disturbed;
	to promote research, professional education in psychiatry and allied fields and the prevention of psychiatric disability;
	to advance the standards of all psychiatric services and facilities;
	to foster the cooperation of all who are concerned with the medical, psychological, social and legal aspects of mental health and illness;
	to make psychiatric knowledge available to other practitioners of medicine, to scientists in other fields of knowledge, and to the public;
	to promote the best interests of patients and those actually or potentially making use of mental health services.

Further, the Illinois Psychiatric Society seeks to promote optimal health care delivery systems and to support psychiatrists in the practice of their profession. The IPS will endeavor to carry out the above objectives in general and in the State of Illinois in particular.