This is a collection of original essays exploring the idea of disclosure as a communicative act. Themes include the psychological and moral impact of personal disclosure; the public spectacle of disclosure in the political arena; disclosure and reason in a Habermasian communicative setting; self-disclosure as a form of moral and political exhortation; disclosure and closure as public policy aims; therapeutic self-disclosure in psychology; disclosure's limits in humour and censorship; and the personal and political implications of silence and the refusal of disclosure.