Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental disorders. There was a time when using the word ‘Psychiatry’ sent wrong signals and hence, mental hospital was considered taboo while ‘Huchaaspatre’ was a derogatory term. Over the years, the way people look at mental health has changed and it is very rare now to see people with mental disorders on the roads like we used to see in the past.
Dr. Sanjay Sreenivas Chandragiri, son of city’s renowned Cardiologist Dr. C.D. Sreenivas Murthy, is practicing Psychiatry in Pennsylvania, USA, over the last two decades. He is the Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and also the Adjunct Visiting Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Kasturba Medical College (KMC), Manipal University.
