TY - JOUR T1 - Commentary: Good primary mental health care is simple JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 409 LP - 409 DO - 10.3399/bjgp08X302691 VL - 58 IS - 551 AU - Harm van Marwijk AU - Berend Terluin Y1 - 2008/06/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/58/551/409.abstract N2 - Is a GP whose reasoning is more complex better for patients with common mental disorders? The paper by Cape et al1 tries to shed some light on an area that is clinically highly relevant but that has received surprisingly little research attention. The key concept discussed by Cape et al is ‘complexity’. They hypothesise that the ‘more complex a GP's thinking about mental health problems is, the more likely it is that the GP will be able to help patients to make meaning of their problems in ways that may assist in easing their distress and helping them engage with potentially helpful treatments’.1 Their research idea is to link such increasingly complex thinking by the GP to increased clinical competence.Although the idea of increasingly complex thinking … ER -