[Organization of mental health care: the role of general practitioners].

Organization of mental health care: the role of general practitioners. In the evaluation of the National French Psychiatry / Mental Health plan 2011-2015, as carried out by the High Public Health Council, some points concern the role of general practitioners and the difficulties they encounter regarding their patients suffering from psychiatric disorders ; are mentioned access to urgent or planned specialized psychiatric care, their role in the management of the physical health of their patients suffering from psychiatric disorders, the vigilance that they must exercise with regard to the over prescription of psychotropic drugs, the announcement of an experiment in the reimbursement of psychotherapies conducted by psychologists and the importance of initial and continuing training of general practitioners in adult and infant-juvenile psychiatry. The regard on psychiatric patients must be changed and the role of general practitioners in this change is important.