ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the speech patterns formally and raises questions about different forms of discourse and communication. In group psychotherapy, the silent places of the interior and interpersonal worlds, the space within and the space between, both represented by emptiness, are connected by a seemingly flimsy structure of words. It considers the word verbal communication that bring us beyond the words themselves to a silence that touches on sources of distress and suffering residing in the hidden places of the self that allow for whatever forms of resolution might be possible. The chapter talks about the usage of discourse analysis to consider the formal structure of peoples' communication and examine the different kinds of silence in terms of their form, content and function. Using the language of discourse analysis we can consider the formal structure of people's communicational activity through a set of questions to examine the many different kinds of silence in terms of their form, content and function.
