Dykes With Baggage: The Lighter Side of Lesbians in Therapy

by Debra Riggin Waugh (Editor)

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!

Riggin Waugh is the author of Homo Neurotica and the editor of the Lambda Literary Award finalist Ex-Love Weird Shit.

Genres: Lesbian, Humor, LGBT

264 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2000

Reviews

[Lauren (strangled) · Rating 4 out of 5]

for what it is. :) fun! it's light-hearted, not earth-shattering. but that's what makes it awesome!

dykey ladies & women-loving-women should enjoy this. doesn't matter if you're actively a part of the lesbian community.

[Thorn MotherIssues · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'd have preferred more memoir and less of the same sort of humor, but that's not the book it was and I still enjoyed it.

[Kitty · Rating 4 out of 5]

Still extremely critical of psychiatry and psychology but damn do I love lesbians. What a charming bunch we are.

[Rebecca · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute and fun. Took me a while to realize that most of the entries were fiction, not personal essay.

[Beth Counselman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thoroughly enjoyable, easy to read, used so many different voices and as a lesbian therapist in therapy, tons of laugh out loud moments.