ABSTRACT
Retrospective introduction Like the article that forms Chapter 9, this chapter reproduces an article that was originally published in a non-English publication, this time, in the German journal, Person [The International Journal for Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counselling], and was also an invited publication. Also like the other chapter, it has a certain history! I had originally submitted an earlier version of the article to a person-centred journal; the reviews were mixed: two reviewers liked it; two did not, and more strongly so; overall it was rejected, with the suggestion that I would need to make certain substantive revisions. Whilst I was disappointed with the decision, I felt fine about the process as I am supportive of the peer-review process (as, in my experience, it always makes the final version so much better). Accordingly, I revised the article, addressing all the points the reviewers had made and resubmitted it. It was rejected again, and, after another round of revisions, yet again. At this point I began to wonder if at least one or two of the reviewers and, indeed, the journal editor(s) were enacting something as the article itself was critiquing a dominant model within person-centred psychology with which many associated with the journal were closely identified. (I knew of another article, similarly critical of this particular model, which had also been rejected from the same journal.) In the end I decided to let it go. Shortly after I had done so, Gerhard Stumm, a valued colleague, who I had met at a number of international person-centred conferences (and who knew about the article), wrote to me to ask if I would be interested in submitting the article to Person, a German language international journal. I was delighted. I updated it, and submitted it; the peer reviews were positive; I made some minor revisions, and it was published.
