René Kaës, a French psychologist and psychoanalyst, died on February 1, 2026, at the age of 89.
Born in Fameck, France, on February 19, 1936, he studied psychosociology at Marc Bloch University. He wrote a thesis titled Images de la culture chez les ouvriers français in 1966 and earned a doctorate in 1974 with a thesis titled Processus groupal et représentations sociales: Études psychanalytiques sur les groupes de formation under the supervision of Didier Anzieu.
As a psychoanalyst, he was a member of the Quatrième Groupe.
René Kaës (French: [ʁəne kaɛ]; 19 February 1936 – 1 February 2026) was a French psychologist and psychoanalyst.