Late.Dr.Majeed Khan was Professor, Deccan College of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad. He was Consultant Psychiatrist with 3 ½ decades of experience and Carried with him wealth of knowledge about Human behavior and personalities. He had scores of true life histories to depict any topic of abnormal behavior. He was awarded Fellowship from The Royal College of Psychiatry of United Kingdom, Australia and Newzealand.
He had special interest in Social Psychiatry and participated in many International Conferences on Suicide Prevention and other social issues like violence in the society and fear. He has given series of television talks including UGC programmes on Psychiatric disorders.
He was a sought after speaker on problems like management of anger, abnormal personalities, alternative styles of thinking and qualities of a successful person, to mention a few.
His main area of interest was in teaching people who were interested in human problems. His regular audiences included Medical Students, Doctors, Managers, Bank Employees, Engineers and Government officials, not to mention Radio, Television and Print Media personnel. He had deep insight and profound knowledge about personalities particularly the abnormal ones.
He travelled widely in connection with his professional work and did a visiting professorial assignment in a Gulf University. In June 1995 he was asked to give a plenary session to Psychiatrists and Counsellors in Thailand. He earlier gave key note addresses, in Rio de Janerio , Victoria falls in Zimbabwe and Colombo.
He was known for his strong views on the role of abnormal people in our Society and is a great believer in lateral thinking, a newer style of thinking.
He wrote extensively in Local press about the importance of Learning Human Psychology particularly in the area of problems of children. He felt that our children are at great risk because of the abnormal psychological behavior of the guardians and trusted caretakers.
He was the former President of Befrienders India, part of a Suicide Prevention chain of Befriender’s International. He was responsible for initiating Voluntary Action in India,to prevent suicide.
He was a member of the Academic Council of College of Business Administration of Osmania University. He has also organized workshops for Management students in Osmania University.
He was also the founder President of Human Understanding & Tolerance Society (HUTS), a Society of Psychiatrists to promote Mental Health Awareness.
His main objective were to propagate new knowledge about abnormal Human Behavior and the havoc it can cause, in the family and the community.
Professional Profile:
Was Professor of Psychiatry, Deccan college of Medical sciences, Hyderabad, India and has an inpatient unit of 30 beds psychiatric hospital at City Nursing Home. This is also a research unit for conducting Drug trials. It is also a teaching unit.