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The Associated Press calls him "Dr. Dad." Publisher's
Weekly says one of his most recent books "places him firmly
in the pantheon occupied by Spock, Brazelton, and Leach." But
Dr. Larry Kutner describes himself simply as "a guy who does
a lot of different stuff."
He's a nationally known clinical psychologist who trained at the
Mayo Clinic and teaches at Harvard Medical school, where he's co-founder
and co-director of the Harvard Medical School Center for Mental
Health and Media. He's also the president of Health Communication
Consultants, Inc.
From 1987 to 1994 he was the author of the award-winning, weekly
New York Times "Parent & Child" column, which
was also syndicated to several hundred other newspapers throughout
the United States. That column won the 1990 American Psychological
Association National Psychology Award as the best writing about
psychology in the country.
He spent eight years as the child behavior and "Ask The Expert"
columnist for Parents magazine, as well as several years
as a columnist and contributing editor at Parenting and Baby
Talk magazines. He also writes about child development for Pampers.com.
He's an Emmy Award-winning television reporter and documentary
producer. For two years he hosted a call-in program on parenting
on KGO Radio (ABC) in San Francisco.
He's been a consultant on child development and a spokesperson
for a wide range of foundations, universities and corporations including
Microsoft, Disney, General Mills, Philips Electronics, Novartis,
Century 21, McAfee.com, Tony's Pizza, Drugstore.com, Procter &
Gamble, Sony, and others.
And he's a father who has done his share of diaper changes, tantrum
taming, and managing adolescent angst.
Dr. Kutner received his bachelor's degree from Oberlin College
in Ohio and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University
of Minnesota. He's the author
of five books: Parent & Child: Getting Through to Each
Other; Pregnancy and Your Baby's First Year; Toddlers
and Preschoolers; Your School-Age Child; and Making
Sense of Your Teenager. All were published by William Morrow
& Co. in hardcover and by Avon Books in softcover.
He lives with his family in the Boston area.
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