Department of Psychiatry

About

Dr. Gupta has extensive experience collaborating with renowned institutions such as the Department of Mood Disorder at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, USA, and the National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre at AIIMS, New Delhi. He has also partnered with various governmental bodies in India, including the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, and the Social Welfare Department of the Government of NCT, Delhi.
While based at VIMHANS, Dr. Gupta has honed his clinical skills in diagnosing and treating mental health and addiction issues and has also been a proactive contributor to research initiatives. He has shaped and executed national policies aimed at combating mental health challenges and substance abuse in India.
Proficient in psychotropic medications, Dr. Gupta also highly advocates for holistic approaches such as psychotherapy, nutritional guidance, yoga, meditation, and the power of positive thinking. Over a career spanning a decade, he has treated a diverse patient population varying in age, gender, cultural background, and socioeconomic status. His primary focus areas include treating mental disorders, drug addiction, rapid detoxification, rehabilitation therapies for substance abuse, and managing dual diagnosis conditions.

Qualification

• MBBS

• DNB (Psychiatry) 

Appointment

• Worked as junior resident, Dept of Psychiatry, IHBAS New Delhi.

• Worked as junior resident, Dept of Emergency Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.

• Worked as junior resident, Dept of Community Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.

• Worked as research associate, Dept. Of psychiatry, TJU, Philadelphia, U.S.A.

• Worked as junior resident, Dept of Psychiatry, G. B. Pant Hospital, New Delhi.

• DNB (Psychiatry): VIMHANS, New Delhi

• Worked as senior resident, Dept of Psychiatry, VIMHANS, New Delhi

• Worked as coordinator, National Technical Training Centre, implementation of Opioid Substitution Therapy (Buprenorphine and Methadone) for Injecting Drug Users, at NDDTC, AIIMS, New Delhi

• Worked as programme officer, OST-IDU-TI, NACO, Ministry of health and family welfare, Govt of India, New Delhi

• Worked as consultant psychiatry and drug deaddiction at Tulasi Psychiatry and Rehabilitation Centre, Mehrauli, New Delhi

• Worked as visiting psychiatrist, Juvenile Justice Homes, MSJE, Govt of Delhi, New Delhi

Expertise

• Depression, 

• Anxiety, 

• Phobic Disorder

• Behavior & Psychological Problems

• Addiction & Related Behavior Problems

Publications

• Naik SK, Pattanayak S, Gupta CS, Pattanayak RD. Help seeking behaviours among caregivers of schizophrenia and other psychotic patients: A hospital-based study in two geographically and culturally distinct Indian cities, Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2012 (accepted)

• Pattanayak S, Gupta CS. Assessment of Pathways to Care in Psychotic Patients Presenting At a Psychiatric Clinic in an Indian City. Asian Journal of Psychiatry 4S1 (2011), 585