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  andSex and other Sacred Games  (with Renee Stendhal); a trilogy of books on hunger,The Obsession, The Hungry Self,  andReinventing Eve;  a novel,The Flame Bearers;  a memoir,In My Mother's House;  a collection of poetry,The Hunger Song;  a book about psychoanalysis,A Different Kind of Listening;  and a spiritual memoir,In My Father's Garden.  She has studed music on her own since the age of seven, when she first began to play the piano.