[2] He founded the psychiatry department of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in 1963,[3] and was the originator of the Dhat syndrome which was coined in 1960.
[1] His interest in psychiatry led him to train at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences in Bangalore.
He was Awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, and went to the UK and US before returning to India in 1962 to establish the Department of Neuropsychiatry at KGMC Lucknow.
[1] In 1963, Wig established the Department of Psychiatry at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh.
His studies in the villages of Raipur Rani, Haryana have reportedly become a model for Mental health in India and diaspora.