The main objectives of setting up of this Institute were:
- To provide optimal tertiary level Mental Health Care Services in the State of Goa which includes therapeutic and rehabilitative services;
- To impart Under-Graduate and Post-Graduate teaching courses in Psychiatry and related discipline, conducted by the Goa University to which the Institute is affiliated;
- To offer training and research in various disciplines of Psychiatry.
- To provide preventive and therapeutic psychiatric community services.
