QUOTABLE: Todd Ackerman

"More than 5 percent of American adults have a serious mental illness- half are between the ages of 25 and 44-and most everyone agrees that traditional psychotherapy's ministrations have failed. According to the most recent statistics, mental illness' total estimated economic cost to American society is more than $200 billion a year, and growing. Other costs, such as reduced quality of life, torn families and loss of life, cannot be calculated."

Todd Ackerman, Houston Chronicle, March 10, 2002