Mothers and Daughters

Mothers and Daughters: The First Three Years offers a new perspective on female development and the origins of mother-daughter relationship pleasures and stresses.

Ilene S. Lefcourt established the Sackler Lefcourt Center for Child Development in 1982, was the director, led the mother-baby-toddler groups, and taught child psychiatry residents and psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapy trainees about her work for over 35 years. She is a faculty member at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and is currently in private practice. Ms. Lefcourt is the author of Parenting and Childhood Memories: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Reverberating Ghosts and Magic (2021), Mother-Baby Toddler Group Guide: A Psychodynamic Approach (2022), and When Mothers Talk: Magical Moments and Everyday Challenges from Birth to Three Years (2024), Routledge.

Introduction 1. Mother-Daughter Relationship Themes 2. Becoming a Mother 3. Mothers' Childhood Memories 4. Moments of Intersubjectivity 5. Birth to One Year 6. One to Two Years 7. Two to Three Years Epilogue