In her new book, Kim Chernin, author of The Obsession and The Hungry Self, takes us inside the mind of the psychoanalytic listener and her clients as few other writers have done. In an almost novelistic fasion she recalls her analysis with three very different analysts and how they shaped her analytic work with their distinctive personalities. She decides to go back to graduate school for a degree in clinical psychology and works with a major figure in the field, discussing with him the life stories of her own clients.