The Department of Psychiatry provides comprehensive care for a wide variety of psychiatric disorders & psychological problems. This department also offers effective de-addiction services to help patients with alcohol and other substance abuse. It offers help to children with various developmental disorders, emotional problems and learning & scholastic difficulties.
It also has excellent liaison services with other medical and surgical departments for the interdisciplinary management of psychosomatic (mental/emotional) disorders. This includes counseling services for cardiac and surgical cases and the management of psychiatric co-morbidity in patients with physical disorders.
The department provides specialized services in the following fields:
- Depression
- Diagnostic and Treatment Services for all Psychiatric and Neuro-psychiatric disorders
- Schizophrenic spectrum disorders
- Mood disorders
- Anxiety disorders
- Delirium, Dementia and cognitive disorders
- Mental health problems of elderly
- Sleep disorders
- Psycho-sexual disorders
- Mental health problems of adolescents
- Somatoform disorders
- Other non-specific disorders
- Consultation Liaison Psychiatry
- Stress Management Programmes (for students & corporates)
- Behaviour Therapy for Anxiety, Phobia, Addictions, etc.
