The Hungry Self: Women, Eating and Identity
Kim Chernin is a guest instructor at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, where she teaches a course in psychoanalytic models with Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer. She is the author of two books about eros and memory,Crossing the Border&nbsp; andSex and other Sacred Games&nbsp; (with Renee Stendhal); a trilogy of books on hunger,The Obsession, The Hungry Self,&nbsp; andReinventing Eve;&nbsp; a novel,The Flame Bearers;&nbsp; a memoir,In My Mother's House;&nbsp; a collection of poetry,The Hunger Song;&nbsp; a book about psychoanalysis,A Different Kind of Listening;&nbsp; and a spiritual memoir,In My Father's Garden.&nbsp; She has studed music on her own since the age of seven, when she first began to play the piano.