The National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) in Bangalore is India's premier psychiatric and neuroscience institution, established in 1974. Its Centre for Psychotherapy maintains a strong psychoanalytic orientation rare among Indian institutions. Offers psychodynamic assessment, individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and group psychotherapy. Government-funded, making intensive psychiatric care accessible regardless of means.
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Adults and adolescents needing intensive psychiatric care with genuine psychodynamic psychotherapy at India's most prestigious mental health institution, at minimal cost.
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One of India's strongest psychoanalytic traditions, with faculty trained in British object relations and Freudian psychoanalysis. Offers intensive psychodynamic treatment within a psychiatric hospital, including long-term individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy for inpatients. Faculty have adapted psychoanalytic concepts to Indian cultural contexts.