these facilities can deliver pharmacological treatments and some talking therapies such as counselling depending on capacity and can refer people to specialised mental health providers family doctors and other physicians performing a primary care function in japan can provide care to patients with mild and moderate mental disorders and can prescribe a fairly standard range of pharmaceuticals for mental health care however in reality unlike in other oecd countries generalists or primary care physicians except for those specialised in psychiatry do not play the central role in the provision of care for mildtomoderate disorders