[fredfish]

It's clearly a serious problem that GPs ignore things that will surface but it is also a problem that experts surface things that don't need to be surfaced and in the worst cases even did not exist but fit a fad theory.

One should be very careful with measures claiming things like 90% as GPs defer to experts for these measures.

[pavlov]

You’re talking about two different GPs.

The other poster meant “grandparent”, as in the comment above the one they were replying to.

And I think you mean GP in the British sense of “general practitioner”, i.e. medical doctor.

[fredfish]

Ah, yes, I took this to be a reference to general doctors don't take psychological issues seriously, which is both true at times and sometimes exaggerated.

[djur]

What fad theories are you thinking of?

[fredfish]

The "satanic panic" was certainly an extreme example, but in general the entire industry spent a few decades inducing false memories. Because of the nature of trust in authority few people question when they are pressured to have a trauma and psychological effects from events that never occurred.

On the lesser end, I think many of the consumer oriented psychologists will take you in this direction with events that did occur but are probably typical experiences and only actually effect specific personalities.