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What you're talking about is completely orthogonal to the article, and the reality at play here:

1. Some emotional issues have physical manifestations (i.e. anxiety symptoms). But some physical manifestation have no root in mental behaviour (i.e. cancer).

2. Like we often see in software engineering, if you turn a metric into a target, it stops being useful. GPs have a KPI tracking the number of people they see in a given timeframe, thus are more likely to dismiss psychological thing because they're not easily visible and need a long time to pin down. One of the reason of the global mental health crisis, and why staff cuts make this even worse.

It is not a school of thought. It's a dysfunctional medical system. The sad reality is that medical doctors, that includes GPs and most psychiatrists, are inadequate to dealing with psychological issues that cannot be easily fixed, masked or numbed with a pill. Even a quack might be more helpful, at least they'll try to keep you around as long as possible instead of dismissing you with a script and a leaflet on meditation.