Welcome to the state of the art reviews on psychodynamic research. We invited experts to inform about the status in specific areas of research, including Allan Abbass, Stephan Doering, Fredrik Falkenström, Peter Fonagy, Susanne Hörtz-Sagstetter, Chris Hopwood, Robert Johansson, Alytia Levendosky, Patrick Luyten, Jakob Mecheler, Reitske Meganck, Nick Midgley, Carla Sharp, Christian Sell, Mark Solms, Joshua Turchan, Joshua Weinberger, N.N.