“…The articles in this issue presented promising ideas that we hope will inspire more theoretical and empirical attention. Examples of these contributions include but are not limited to: the value of considering all ruptures to be inherently cultural (Chang et al, 2021); the value of emphasizing active collaboration between patient and therapist in rupture repair (Kazantzis & Okamoto, 2021); the value of attending to how the patient's internal conflicts may manifest in the alliance (Abbass & Town, 2021); the value of distinguishing between early alliance formation versus later alliance difficulties (Elliott & MacDonald, 2021); the value of focusing on the function of the patient's and the therapist's behaviors (Walser & O'Connell, 2021); and the value of integrating rupture repair responses with one's case formulation (Boritz et al, 2021). These articles add to the growing literature on ways to attend to alliance ruptures in and across different orientations (e.g., Dimaggio et al, 2020;Kazantzis et al, 2017;Tishby & Wiseman, 2018).…”