This is, as the very well chosen title indicates, the report of the analysis of a female homosexual. It covers the first four years of a rather orthodox Freudian analysis with three weekly sessions during the first two years and two weekly session thereafter, and ends at the point where the patient had made a final break with homosexuality. The last chapter summarizes the etiology of this patient's homosexuality, the analytic process and the patient's attempts to put her insights into effect in her life situation.

Each new insight leads to resistance. Dr. Robertiello's part in the analysis consisted mainly of pointing out the resistances and tracing them