Sons, daughters, and sidewalk psychotics: mental illness and homelessness in Los Angeles

Preface : "thirty years late"

Introduction

Community care for different communities. Dilemmas of the street and of the home; Sorting out the down and out; Remaking relatives, remaking relations

Unequal treatments, unequal recoveries. Social prognosis; A life off the "institutional circuit"; A viable identity

The paradox of client choice. Of love and liability; Tolerant containment; Concerted constraint

Conclusion.