On a cold and foggy 7th January 1947, thirteen leading doctors working in the field of mental health in India met during Indian Science Congress at Delhi University and formed an association of mental health professionals and named it Indian Psychiatric Society.

The new organization held its first annual conference at Patna and got it registered at CIP Ranchi, then Bihar as ‘Indian Psychiatric Society’, under the Societies Registration Act 1860, on 30th December 1948 and thus the IPS was officially born.

Now, the IPS is a big caravan of 7500+ Psychiatrists with Pan India presence and respectable international standing.