The Department of Psychiatry is dedicated to the comprehensive assessment and treatment of adult psychiatric disorders.
Services provided include a general adult inpatient psychiatry service with sixty inpatient beds.
Additionally, outpatient and consultation services are provided by multidisciplinary approved staff psychiatrists who perform diagnostic evaluation and treatment, including psychopharmacologic management of psychiatric disorders, short term focused psychotherapy, individual and group psychotherapy, a crisis intervention program, couples and marital therapy, sexual dysfunction therapy, rape crisis counseling, an eating disorders program, electroconvulsive therapy, and psychological and neurophysical testing. The department also provides psychopharmacologic treatment for anxiety, depressive and symptom disorders. Hypnosis, behavior modification, and biofeedback therapies are available for treatment of phobias, obesity, smoking and stress-related medical disorders, and pain control. We also have a Partial Hospital program at the West Campus.