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The Hungry Self: Women, Eating and Identity (Paperback)

by Kim Chernin (Author) "I READ YOUR BOOK," she says..." (more)
Key Phrases: eating obsession, obsession with food, entry into culture, Karen Carpenter, Betty Friedan, Mariel Hemingway (more...)
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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

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 Paperbacks (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)
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