ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that person-centred “congruent communication”, despite appearing to have great potential for transforming how we talk, seems to leave communicative norms largely unquestioned and certain domains of experience unacknowledged. It identifies some aspects of subjective life which “open” and “transparent” person-centred spaces appear not to include, and offers some reflections on how silences may be perpetuated, both in our practice and our thinking about practice. It also indicates some possibilities for opening the discourse in therapy and of therapy, in the hope that it might be a radically hospitable ‘place in which everything can go’.
