On Style

Abstract

This article is the result of a process and a dialogue between the two authors regarding matters of style, especially with regard to peer-reviewed publications in this and other journals which aspire to achieving and maintaining certain academic and publishing standards. The article comprises an initial submission from the first author; email correspondence between the authors which includes some feedback from an anonymous reviewer; a short piece on style by the first author; and a final dialogue between the two authors. The article encompasses discussions about the politics of style; the implications of the expectations and, indeed, requirements of both academia and publishing; and the position of journals such as Psychotherapy and Politics International in holding and promoting a position of diversity and pluralism in the face of neoliberal pressure to conform – or be dammed.