The department of Psychiatry was set up in 1970. The First teacher Maj S B Chatterjee established the framework of this prestigious division. The office in the underlying years possessed workplaces in little working behind the Anatomy division complex. In April 1998, under Col PS Valdiya the division moved into its present area in the Golden Jubilee Block.

Statement of purpose

The bureau of Psychiatry goes for making this division a focal point of perfection amongst Armed Forces as well as over every restorative establishment; India and abroad.

Post Graduate Training

The post graduate residency project is intricate and preparing is bestowed in different sub-fortes including Adult psychiatry, kid psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, enslavement psychiatry, military psychiatry, natural psychiatry, psychotherapy and clinical brain science.

Facilities accessible

Office which exists in the division is inpatient psychiatric administration, outpatient treatment, youngster direction center, memory facility, deaddiction center and so forth. The Psychometry lab of this division takes into account clinical and analytic assessment of patients and also identity profiling and conduct adjustment of contestant restorative understudies. Division has been in the cutting edge of creating rules, creating mental tests and its product's and distributed books remembering the desires of specialists and eventual fate of Military Psychiatry.

Outreach exercises

Standard effort movement, school visits and group projects are completed in which the students and postgraduates effectively partake. Interest in rustic psychological wellness in a joint effort with Community prescription division is additionally requested for reason for preparing, treatment, strengthening and backing. The division is effectively required in directing yearly workshops in different mental and psychiatric subjects of importance which are profoundly welcomed by the personnel and post graduate understudies from encompassing restorative universities.

Research works

Office has been pioneer and dynamic in way breaking scrutinizes; some of them incorporate work on relationship of life occasions of troopers with psychopathology in their youngsters, Mental strength of briefly isolated family, volumetric investigation of patients with liquor reliance disorder, part of intellectual enhancers in electroconvulsive treatment instigated subjective shortfalls, administration of issue consumers at unit level, advancement of scales for evaluation of life occasions of serving faculty or personal satisfaction of military family and so on.

Office is as of now headed by Brig RC Das who is a tyke specialist of distinction and his ideal mix of scholastic magnificence and expert devotion is deserving of imitating.