Lawrence Kutner

Biography

Dr. Larry Kutner is one of America’s best-known psychologists. He trained at the Mayo Clinic and is on the psychiatry faculty at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, where he’s the co-director and co-founder of the Center for Mental Health and Media. In addition to his work in traditional areas of psychology, he spent seven years writing the award-winning, internationally syndicated “Parent & Child” column for the New York Times, and another seven years as the "Ask the Expert" child behavior columnist for Parents magazine. The American Psychological Association gave him its National Psychology Award for Excellence in Newspaper Writing, citing his New York Times column as the best writing about psychology in the United States. In 2008 he received the APA’s Award for Distinguished Lifetime Contribution to Media Psychology. He’s written six books for parents on child development and parent-child communication. Dr. Kutner is also an Emmy award-winning television reporter and producer and a former talk-show host on KGO Radio (ABC), the #1 news-talk station in the United States. He appears regularly on network, syndicated, and major market television and radio programs as a child development and parenting expert. He designed and teaches a seminar for physicians at Massachusetts General Hospital on working effectively with the media. Dr. Kutner has been a visiting professor and visiting scholar at several universities in the United States and in Europe, and has given speeches from Basel, Switzerland to Bangkok, Thailand. He received his undergraduate degree from Oberlin College and his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Minnesota.

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