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First, we highlight the importance of the psychological issues at play for women struggling with alcohol dependence, including the relationship to the feminine and femininity which leads every woman back to her relationship to the maternal object. Then we explore the psychological changes that occur throughout the pregnancy of an expectant mother with alcohol difficulties in order to understand the dimension of parenthood in this sensitive perinatal period for alcohol-dependent women. The chaotic and painful past of these women struggling with alcohol use leads us to develop a network approach to help these mothers and to lower the risk to their children.