The history of the Department of Psychiatry, Narcology and Medical Psychology is an integral part of the Institute’s history. After the foundation of the Bukhara State Medical Institute, by order of the rector Professor A.I. Muminov, in 1993, the Department of Psychiatry, Narcology and Medical Psychology was formed, which was headed by Candidate of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor Rifat Rizaevich Shakir-Aliyev. 1996-1998 the department was headed by the chief physician of the Bukhara regional psychoneurological dispensary Khamro Salievich Khamdamov. In the period from 1998-2012, the department was headed by Khakikat Karimzhanovna Mukhtarova.
It was she who laid the foundation for the regional scientific school of psychiatry. Under her leadership, talented students were accepted into clinical residency and master’s programs. To date, more than 40 graduates work in the departments of the regional psycho-neurological hospital and the narcological dispensary, who make a significant contribution to the improvement of the regional psychiatric and narcological service.
Khakikat Karimzhanovna proposed and implemented: a subtle clinical analysis, a structural-dynamic approach to diagnostics, special attention and thorough knowledge of general psychopathology, the need for psychiatric literature, close cooperation with practical healthcare, a modern pedagogical process, the desire to learn psychiatry from primary sources. For many years M.K.Kenzhaev, L.F.Abdullaeva worked as assistants at the department. In the footsteps of mentors, U.I. Kuchkarov, Y.Y. Ergasheva, N.B. Mukhamadieva, U.T.Rustamov.
Young specialists were engaged in research in the field of suicidology, narcology, psychosomatics and somatopsychiatry. Since 2000 (to the present), by order of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the solution of issues of forensic psychiatric examination was entrusted to a team led by H.K. Mukhtarova.
On September 6, 2019, Mukhamadieva Nigina Bakhodirovna was appointed head of the Department of Psychiatry, Narcology and Medical Psychology.
She and the staff of the department: associate professors Mukhtarova H.K., Kuchkarov U.I., Ergasheva Y.Y., assistants Rustamov U.T., Tilavov M.T., Nazarov A.I., Yodgorov Zh.Zh., Juraev Sh.Zh. to write the next pages of the history of the department