Depression Psychoanalysts in Delhi

Effective psychological treatments include behavioural activation and cognitive-behavioural therapy ¹. Interpersonal psychotherapy and problem-solving therapy are also used. In the World Health Organization's words: ‘Psychological treatments are the first treatments for depression.’ ‘They can be combined with antidepressant medicines in moderate and severe depression.’

Effective treatment exists for mild, moderate and severe depression. A depressive episode means low mood, or loss of interest in things you enjoyed. It lasts most of the day, nearly every day, for at least two weeks.

Low mood after a loss or a hard year is not automatically a disorder, though support can help. Ask a practitioner what they would suggest, and why.

Everyone on this page describes their work as psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic therapy. You talk as freely as you can, and the analyst listens for patterns. The analyst also listens for how those patterns appear between you both.

Analysis usually means several meetings a week, agreed between you and the analyst. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy uses the same ideas once or twice a week.

The work runs open-ended rather than to a fixed number of sessions.

Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital Psychiatry Department. Phone +91 11 25494402. Care at this state government hospital is free. The psychiatry outpatient clinic is open to the public from Monday to Saturday. You must register at the hospital first.

• Department of Psychiatry at Vardhman Mahavir Medical College & Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi offers psychiatry outpatient, inpatient, psychotherapy and counselling services.²

See the India page for the professions that do carry a register there.