Katharine "Kitty" Dukakis (née Dickson; born December 26, 1936) is an American author.

During the 1988 presidential election, several false rumors were reported in the media about the Dukakises, including the claim by Idaho Republican Senator Steve Symms that Kitty had burned an American flag to protest the Vietnam War.

The book also discussed the pressures of being a political wife and her disappointment over her husband's defeat in the 1988 election.

In 2006, her book Shock revealed that she had undergone electroconvulsive therapy treatment beginning in 2001 in order to treat major depression.

[13] In 2007, the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, opened a center for addiction treatment named after Dukakis.