Dykes With Baggage

The Lighter Side of Lesbians in Therapy

Debra Riggin Waugh

Some day you will look back on all this and laugh. If you never thought you would hear that phrase applied to the usually agonizing process of psychoanalysis, think again! Among the very skewed sessions in this hilarious collection you will find ‘Affirmations in Action’ by Ellen Orleans, ‘Serial Therapy (or What to Do When Your Therapist Is Seeing Someone Else)’ by G.L. Morrison, ‘Case History of a Warrior Princess’ by Julia Willis, ‘What Do You Say to a Naked Therapist?’ by Lesla Newman, and cartoons by Kris Kovick. No matter if you are as well-balanced as a scale or should be in analysis for 18 hours a day, these stories will leave you in stitches!

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Not likely to end up next to the April 1974 National Geographic in your psychologist’s waiting room, this irreverent collection of cartoons, personal essays, and short stories about the torments of therapy goes down well with half a Paxil and a glass of orange juice. In Ivy Burrowes’s ‘Therapeutic Insurrection,’ two women in group therapy break the rules and begin an affair with each other. Leslea Newman displays an obsessive streak in ‘What Do You Say to a Naked Therapist?’ and in C.C. Carter’s ‘On Becoming a Woman,’ a full-figured lesbian finally rejects her ‘food counselor’ and embraces her own size 14 beauty. Although the book is not always as funny as its jacket copy suggests, there are a few gems, including editor Debra Riggin Waugh’s brief sketch of a couples’ counseling session with a new therapist, in which the main character, suffering from a bad cold, fails to hear the crucial first two words of the sentence, ‘Do you tell her what you like in bed?’ and launches into a graphic description of their lovemaking. This is antidepressive reading; keep out of reach of therapists. –Regina Marler

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ISBN	1555835686
Genre	Anthology – Fiction; Humor
Publication Date	01-Nov-00
Publisher	Alyson Books
Editor	Debra Riggin Waugh
Format	Trade Paperback
No. of Pages	309
Language	English
Rating	NotRated
Editor	Debra Riggin Waugh
BookID	3367

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Dykes With Baggage by Debra Riggin Waugh