The Hungry Self: Women, Eating and Identity [Paperback]

Kim Chernin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 13, 1994

Answers the need for help among the five million American women who suffer from eating disorders. "An inspired psychoanalytic meditation on contemporary female identity and eating disorders."--Phyllis Chesler

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About the Author

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

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Harper Perennial (April 13, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060925043
• ISBN-13: 978-0060925048
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #555,944 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is revelatory, personal, complex and crucial., August 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Hungry Self: Women, Eating and Identity (Paperback)

Kim Chernin has explored the dangerous and complex world of women's eating disorders with more intelligence and research than most, and this book does the most justice to the power of her ideas. It would be a disservice to her to sum up Chapters here -- suffice it to say that anyone who truly wants to understand this important issue with respect to its depth and power should step up to Chernin's level.

9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars absolutely transfixing, January 2, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Hungry Self: Women, Eating and Identity (Paperback)

This book changed my life. I have read dozens of novels and texts on eating disorders, but only this one granted a new understanding and awarenss. Along with 'Women Who Run with the Wolves', by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'The Hungry Self' stands as an intensely emotional and complex piece on women and identity.