The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness - Paperback

Chernin, Kim: - 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 and Sex and other Sacred Games&nbsp (with Renee Stendhal); a trilogy of books on hunger, The Obsession, The Hungry Self, &nbsp and Reinventing 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.