Peter Kutter

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Peter Kutter (born February 5, 1930 in Heidenheim an der Brenz ; † May 6, 2014 ) was a German doctor, psychoanalyst and university professor for psychoanalysis .

Life

Peter Kutter grew up in a doctor's household in Heidenheim an der Brenz. He studied medicine in Mainz , Munich , Göttingen and Heidelberg . In 1955 he received his doctorate in the field of gynecology with the thesis The cytological assessment of hormonal stimulation in benign and malignant proliferation in menopause . He then worked from 1956 to 1964 as an assistant doctor in the Bad Cannstatt Hospital as well as in the Katharinenhospital and the Bürgerhospital in Stuttgart . During his medical work, Kutter discovered that no organic causes can be found in many patients, but that psychological factors play a major role. That is why he took part in evening courses at the Stuttgart Institute for Psychotherapy in the fields of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy . Kutter completed further training in the field of psychoanalysis at the Sigmund Freud Institute in Frankfurt am Main, with Wolfgang Loch as training analyst and Clemens de Boor and Margarete Mitscherlich as supervisors . As a result, he was not only active as a specialist in internal medicine , but also in neurology , psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine . Kutter also ran a practice in Stuttgart, was the head of an educational counseling center in Ludwigsburg and an assistant professor at the Institute for Social Pedagogy and Adult Education at the Free University of Berlin with a focus on working with groups .

After Alexander Mitscherlich's previous chair for psychology, in particular psychoanalysis and social psychology, at the University of Frankfurt am Main was expanded to an institute for psychoanalysis and this was equipped with three university lecturers, Kutter took over a professorship for psychoanalysis in 1974. He was elected managing director at the institute several times and was Dean of the Department of Psychology for one year from 1987 to 1988. He was also a training and control analyst for the German Psychoanalytical Association (DPV).

From 1986 to 1994, alongside Dieter Ohlmeier and Clemens de Boor, he was responsible for organizing the annual Sigmund Freud lecture, which was held in the university auditorium.

After his retirement in 1994, he lived in Stuttgart, but continued to work scientifically and was a member of the AG Stuttgart / Tübingen in the DPV. In 2012 he got cancer. He died on May 6, 2014 at the age of 84.

Since 1977 he was a member of the Corps Rhenania Heidelberg . One of his companions and friends was the Heidelberg physician Wolfgang Rapp , a student of Paul Christian .

research

Kutter's main research areas were:

  • the empirical examination of the effect of self-awareness and supervision groups on the participants, whereby the Gießen test was used as a research tool in the comparison group design,
  • the application of a twelve-hour psychoanalytic short-term therapy to patients after breast cancer surgery, in cooperation with five women's clinics, and
  • a six-session group psychotherapy for patients after a heart attack during the follow-up treatment, in cooperation with a health clinic in Bad Nauheim .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the DNB catalog . German National Library .
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 131 , 900
  3. ↑ Peter Kutter's website: University activity . Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  4. ↑ Giesler, Thums, Lorenz and Kutter: Psychoanalytic short therapy of women operated on breast cancer . In: Jahrbuch der Psychoonkologie , 1996, 1: 3-30.
  5. ↑ Kutter: About a time-limited group therapy with heart attack patients . In: Group Psychotherapy and Group Dynamics , 1997, 33: 177-193
personal data
SURNAME Kutter, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, psychoanalyst and university professor for psychoanalysis
DATE OF BIRTH 5th February 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidenheim an der Brenz
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 2014