Amy Schwartz Cooney (NYU, National Institute for the Psychotherapies [NIP], Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and private practice in NYC) and Rachel Sopher (NIP, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, and private practice in NYC).  Vitalization in psychoanalysis: Perspectives on being and becoming In Vitalization in Psychoanalysis, Schwartz Cooney and Sopher develop and explore the concept of vitalization, generating new ways of approaching and conceptualizing the psychoanalytic project. Vitalization refers to the process between two people that ignites new experiences and brings withdrawn aspects of the self to life. This book focuses on how psychoanalysis can be a uniquely creative encounter that can aid this enlivening internal process, offering a vibrant new take on the psychotherapeutic project. There is a long tradition in psychoanalysis that addresses the ways that the unique subjectivities of each member of the therapeutic dyad contribute to the repetition of entrenched patterns of relating, and how the processing of enactments can be reparative. But this overlap in subjectivities can also bring to life undeveloped experiences. This focus on generativity and progressive action represents a significant, cutting-edge turn in psychoanalysis. Vitalization in Psychoanalysis represents a deep meditation on this transformational moment in the history of psychoanalytic thought. Pulling together work from major writers on vitalization from all the main psychoanalytic schools of thought, and covering development, theory and clinical practice, this book will be an invaluable guide for clinicians of all backgrounds, as well of students of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Table of Contents 1. Vitalizing Enactment: A Relational Exploration  2. An Allegiance to Absence: Fidelity to the Internal Void  3. Activating life in the analytic encounter: the ground of being in psychoanalysis  4. The Generative Unconscious and the Capacity to be Fully Alive  5. Between Mythos and Logos: Surrender, Vitalization and Transformation  6. Vitalizing Engagement: the Generative Transformation of the Project of Psychoanalysis  7. Reawakening Desire: Shame, Analytic Love, and Psychoanalytic Imagination  8. Moving from within the Maternal: The Choreography of Analytic Eroticism  9. Vitalization as a Case-Specific Emergent Process  10. Vitality, Attunement and the Lack Thereof  11. The Analyst As Catalyst: Cultivating Mind In The Shadow Of Neglect  12. What Makes Time Fly? Loewald’s Concept of Time and the Resuscitation of Vitality ... Editor(s) Biography Amy Schwartz Cooney, Ph.D., is on faculty at the New York University (NYU) Post-Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She is on the Board of Directors and is faculty/supervisor at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) and at the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. She is Joint Editor in Chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and is in private practice in New York City. Rachel Sopher is Board Director, Faculty and Supervisor, National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) Training Institute; Faculty and Supervisor, National Training Program for NIP; and Faculty, Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. She is Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Perspectives and maintains a private practice in New York City. Reviews "To live or to exist in less than aliveness or deadness. Such is the profound question at the heart of contemporary psychoanalytic theory and treatment and this expertly curated volume brings together the leading writers on the vitalizing possibilities that inhere in contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice. We encounter patients dominated by states of non-aliveness, absence, dysregulation, trauma and neglect; and clinicians who utilize elements of their own presence, reverie, countertransference and shere courage to facilitate, kindle and ignite life, libido and vitality. Reading this book is an exercise in parallel process: each unique chapter will itself