title: A Guide's Tale
author: Gerald R Patterson
description: Gerald R. Patterson graduated with a Ph.D. in research psychology from the University of Minnesota, and founded his own research institute that produced an award-winning theory of aggressive behavior in children and a proven set of treatments still used in Norway, Iceland, the Netherlands, and the state of Michigan. He is the author of several parenting books, including Living with Children and Living with Adolescents. Now in his eighties, the author still counts white water canoeing, downhill skiing, and fly fishing as some of his favorite hobbies, and visits the Robinson Lake area often with his wife and children.
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