SK Soni Hospital has one of the best psychiatry faculties of any department in the state. The areas of research in which the department is engaged are:

·         Psychiatric Epidemiology and Community Mental Health

·         Psychiatric phenomenology

·         Pharmacological and other modes of therapy

·         Biological aspects of Psychiatry

·         Family psychiatry

·         Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

·         Mental Retardation

·         Community Psychiatry

·         Alcoholism and Drug dependence

·         Psychiatric Rehabilitation

·         Geriatric Psychiatry

·         Therapeutic use of Yoga in psychiatric conditions.