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What do we mean when we characterize a treatment as boring? Is it even possible for a treatment to become deadened? Do we believe that out of the ashes of boredom rise the phoenix of creativity? Approaching psychoanalytic treatment from a nonlinear, dynamic, dyadic process enables us to understand boredom as an emergent, mutually regulated, cocreated process. This article offers a clinical vignette that focuses on the coconstructed emergence of “boredom” and subsequent “creative” perturbations.