Families and abuse of prescribed medication: A psychological analysis of women's and children's experiences in the family and other social institutions

This paper focuses on women's (mother's) use of psychotropic medication in both Greece and Portugal. Reference is made to the types of psychological and social problems women experience which lead them to the use and eventual abuse of psychotropics as well to the kinds of reactions and experiences the children of these women have. Specific attention is given to how children react toward the women who use/abuse psychotropics. The methodology used borrows from psychology and anthropology and centres around the ethnographic interview and theme analysis.