The
Department of Psychiatry was established in 1971. The founder father of
the Department is Prof. O.N.Srivastava, The MD course was started in
1971 and course was approved by MCI. Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology) was
started in 1979 and 17 candidates have been awarded Ph.D. Significant
contributions are: Starting of DeAddiction Centre (Mahamana Jyoti
Kendra). 20 National and 2 International Publications. The department
has honour of organizing Annual Conference of IPS, 2 Mid Term CME and
one International CME. High link education program between BHU and
University of Leicester, UK and 75 distinguished faculty have visited
the department.