ABSTRACT
In A Leg to Stand On (1991) Oliver Sacks gives a masterly account of his experience as doctor turned patient. My aim in this chapter is to describe my own account of being both a therapist and patient-these separate but mysteriously converging paths. I am attempting to put into words a strangely elusive reality, because I am convinced that the very inability to articulate the contradictions of disability and identity within rehabilitation is perhaps the force that drives professionals and patients to the safe haven of science and objectivity. The resulting silence allows little place for dialogue and negotiation, thereby reinforcing the powerful voice of medicine to which Sacks alludes.
