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Psychodynamic Psychiatry has reached a major milestone—its 50th anniversary! This issue and the next comprise two special anniversary issues with 24 articles in total selected by an editorial panel after an arduous review process.1 Over 2000 papers were reviewed, and the articles selected were deemed to be pioneering, thought provoking, clinically relevant, and to have advanced the field in meaningful ways. This issue contains 12 articles with introductory annotations for each, many provided by the original authors.
In order to look at the relevance of these articles and their importance for the future of psychodynamic psychiatry, it is important to review the past history of the journal and The American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis (known as The Academy). Psychodynamic Psychiatry is the official journal of The Academy, an organization of psychoanalytically trained physicians, established in 1956. Changes in the name of the organization and the journal over the years reflect important shifts in the orientation of its members and a repositioning of the field at large. There is increasing awareness of the importance and integration of psychoanalytic and psychodynamic ideas with neuroscience, academic psychiatry and psychology,