Kim Chernin

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