ABSTRACT
Up close and in context, [the homeless] are remarkably like most of us in their basic needs, their dreams and desires, their interpersonal strategies, and their proclivity to account for their situation in a fashion that attempts to salvage the self. There are differences, to be sure, but . . . in most instances, these differences . . . are rooted in the profoundly dismal situation in which the homeless find themselves. Confronted with a similar set of circumstances, the behaviors, cognitions, and faces of most citizens would, no doubt, be much the same.
