A Workshop Presented by Prof. Dr. med. Lutz Goetzmann
Event Price: Fees include CEs. This is a free event for HP/CPC students and candidates, $60 for CPC/HP members and nonmember students, and $90 for nonmembers who are not students.
Continued Education (CEU/CME): 3.0 credits
Attendance: Virtual event via Zoom Meeting
Course Description:
Altruism itself is underexplored in psychoanalysis. The topics importance for learners is its investigation into a peculiar form of altruism. Living kidney donors are unusual, extreme cases, in which the acceptable costs to the benefactor far exceed an acceptable threshold for most people. There are many instances of helping a stranger in need, but few would undergo major abdominal surgery with the attendant increased risk of kidney failure themselves. These extreme cases, then, reveal unique features that are otherwise absent, highlight key factors less salient, and offer new opportunities for hypothesis building in typical cases of altruism in psychoanalytic practice.
Learning Objectives:
Learners will review and articulate ideas of the psychoanalytic interpretations of altruism and rescue fantasies
Learners will identify and explain psychodynamic features correlated with the wish to donate a kidney to a stranger.
Lutz Goetzmann, MD, working in his practice in Berlin as a psychoanalyst (SGPsa / IPA). He studied medicine in Homburg / Germany; psychoanalytic training at the Freud Institute Zurich and habilitation at the University Hospital Zurich. 2011 - 2020 Chief Physician of the Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Bad Segeberg, since 2014 APL professorship at the University of Lübeck. Co-founder of the Institute of Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Cultural Studies (IPPK) and co-editor of the journal "Y - Journal of Atopic Thinking". Numerous publications on psychoanalytic psychosomatics.