Dykes With Baggage

Rating:
Summary: Laugh all the way to your next appointment
Review: Ever wonder what you would do if you ran smack into your therapist in the dressing room at the 'Y'? Need advice on how to select a therapist? Or an object lesson on what happens when you choose badly?

This book is full of amusing and insightful stories about lesbians in therapy, and lesbian therapists doing therapy, and lesbians who should be doing therapy. Most of the stories are well-written and fluent.

This book is a great deal of fun, offers some real food for thought and is a good way to tide you over your therapist's four-week trip to Aruba.

Rating:
Summary: Laugh, cry, schedule an emergency session
Review: Finally a book that deals tongue-in-cheek with our Issues with a capital "I."

Meredith Cohen ("Ms. Behavior") once wrote about the pesky boundary situations that can occur between lesbians and their (oftentimes) lesbian therapists and this book provides ample evidence of this. From one woman (oops womyn? :) seeing her therapist naked at the gym, to a client who uses a therapist's home bathroom and has to have the therapist pass toilet paper through the cracked door..well, you get the picture.

This book will definitely make you laugh, so buy one for the next time your therapist is on a vacation. Until prozac goes generic, it's the next best thing....

Rating:
Summary: Laugh, cry, schedule an emergency session
Review: Finally a book that deals tongue-in-cheek with our Issues with a capital "I."

Meredith Cohen ("Ms. Behavior") once wrote about the pesky boundary situations that can occur between lesbians and their (oftentimes) lesbian therapists and this book provides ample evidence of this. From one woman (oops womyn? :) seeing her therapist naked at the gym, to a client who uses a therapist's home bathroom and has to have the therapist pass toilet paper through the cracked door..well, you get the picture.

This book will definitely make you laugh, so buy one for the next time your therapist is on a vacation. Until prozac goes generic, it's the next best thing....

Rating:
Summary: hostile
Review: Well, as a queer client and therapist, I thought most of these pieces were unbelievably hostile. Very few were affectionate, and thus the collection didn't mirror the attitude of the majority of lesbians I've ever talked with, socially or professionally. A much more accurate (and funny) depiction of lesbian client/lesbian therapist issues, for example, can be found in any volume of any "Dykes to Watch Out For."

The overwhelming anger of this volume made me very sad. No, I wouldn't put this in my waiting room. Not because it pokes fun, but because it is not funny.