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Dr. Robert G. Kvames, 67, a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, who was the director of the Washington School of Psychiatry for 27 years before retiring in 1982, died on Sunday, November 20, 1983, at Suburban Hospital. He lived in Chevy Chase, Md.
Since 1961, Dr, Kvames and his family had been weekend and summer residents of Rappahannock County, maintaining a home in Gid Brown Hollow.
The Washington School of Psychiatry was founded in 1936 by the late Dr. Harry Stack Sullivan. It offers post-graduate courses in psychiatry and related subjects, conducts research, and is involved in community action works.
Dr. Kvames was a native of Minnesota and earned his undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Minnesota. He served with the Army Medical Corps in Europe during World War II, attaining the rank of major. In 1946 he joined the staff at Chestnut Lodge in Rockville. He remained on the staff there, and practiced psychoanalysis and psychiatry, until his death.
He had directed the Washington School of Psychiatry’s cancer attitude therapy program. He founded it in late 1980 as a group program for persons who had cancer and who were using attitude therapy to come to grips with the disease.
Dr. Kvames had served on the board of the Metropolitan Educational Council for Staff Development, and had established and chaired a committee in the early 1960s that sought means to cope with behavior problems in this city’s public schools. He was a member of the Washington Psychoanalytic and the Washington Psychiatric societies. He was the author of numerous technical publications.
His wife, Miriam, died earlier this year. His survivors include two sons, Eric and Jensen, both of Gid Brown Hollow.
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