Most analytic case reports concern heterosexual, married men who experience a periodic need to put on women's clothing in order to stimulate themselves, usually during masturbation, or more rarely, in sexual intercourse. Men whose predominant sexual gratification comes from wearing women's clothing rarely come to psychotherapy because of their perversion, but more often because of deep depression. The author's transvestite patient was successfully treated by a five-year analysis and follow-up. Traumatizations had occurred in the separation-individuation and oedipal phases. The symptom performed the function of a transitional object for this patient, making up for the abandonment he had experienced in these traumata.