Lesbians and therapists: a critique.

The author critiques a study on the importance of explicitness of therapists to lesbian patients who are undergoing counseling. Researcher Cordelia Galgut claimed that lesbians find sexual explicitness from their therapists as well as disclosure of their therapists' sexuality more helpful for their therapeutic relationships. The implication of absenting her own voice as a client in this way was that Galgut did not really give a flavour of how she entered into dialogue with her research participants, comparing and sharing her own experiences of therapy with theirs, and building up a shared sense of an ongoing relationship with the research question, and that elusive creature, the ideal therapist.