Neil Gong is assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego. He is coeditor, with Corey Abramson, of Beyond the Case: The Logics and Practices of Comparative Ethnography. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and the Los Angeles Times.

“An innovative study of mental health care for the poorest and the richest of the city’s inhabitants—showing how the system fails all, albeit in different ways. . . . Few authors capture this dynamic as neatly as Gong does in Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics, his study of two strikingly dissimilar mental health treatment regimes in the same city."

• List of AbbreviationsPreface: “Thirty Years Late”IntroductionPart I: Community Care for Different Communities1. Dilemmas of the Street and of the Home2. Sorting Out the Down and Out3. Remaking Relatives, Remaking RelationsPart II: Unequal Treatments, Unequal Recoveries4. Social Prognosis5. A Life off the “Institutional Circuit”6. A Viable IdentityPart III: The Paradox of Client Choice7. Of Love and Liability8. Tolerant Containment9. Concerted ConstraintConclusionAcknowledgmentsResearch AppendixNotesReferencesIndex

Neil Gong is assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego. He is coeditor, with Corey Abramson, of Beyond the Case: The Logics and Practices of Comparative Ethnography. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and the Los Angeles Times.

“An innovative study of mental health care for the poorest and the richest of the city’s inhabitants—showing how the system fails all, albeit in different ways. . . . Few authors capture this dynamic as neatly as Gong does in Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics, his study of two strikingly dissimilar mental health treatment regimes in the same city."

• List of AbbreviationsPreface: “Thirty Years Late”IntroductionPart I: Community Care for Different Communities1. Dilemmas of the Street and of the Home2. Sorting Out the Down and Out3. Remaking Relatives, Remaking RelationsPart II: Unequal Treatments, Unequal Recoveries4. Social Prognosis5. A Life off the “Institutional Circuit”6. A Viable IdentityPart III: The Paradox of Client Choice7. Of Love and Liability8. Tolerant Containment9. Concerted ConstraintConclusionAcknowledgmentsResearch AppendixNotesReferencesIndex

Neil Gong is assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego. He is coeditor, with Corey Abramson, of Beyond the Case: The Logics and Practices of Comparative Ethnography. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and the Los Angeles Times.

“An innovative study of mental health care for the poorest and the richest of the city’s inhabitants—showing how the system fails all, albeit in different ways. . . . Few authors capture this dynamic as neatly as Gong does in Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics, his study of two strikingly dissimilar mental health treatment regimes in the same city."

• List of AbbreviationsPreface: “Thirty Years Late”IntroductionPart I: Community Care for Different Communities1. Dilemmas of the Street and of the Home2. Sorting Out the Down and Out3. Remaking Relatives, Remaking RelationsPart II: Unequal Treatments, Unequal Recoveries4. Social Prognosis5. A Life off the “Institutional Circuit”6. A Viable IdentityPart III: The Paradox of Client Choice7. Of Love and Liability8. Tolerant Containment9. Concerted ConstraintConclusionAcknowledgmentsResearch AppendixNotesReferencesIndex