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This book is a compilation of articles written by, for, and about the Canadian-born psychoanalyst Clifford Scott, one of the founders of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and the Child Psychoanalytic training program. Dr. Scott graduated in medicine
from the University of Toronto in the 1920s. He went to the USA to study under Paul Schilder and Adolf Meyer, before going to London, where he was Melanie Klein's first medical analysand.Scott became a mentor to Winnicott and Bion, and analyzed Marion Milner and both of Winnicott's wives! He was president of the British Psychoanalytic Society, but left London unexpectedly to join the few analysts who were already in Montreal in 1953. He once told me of the dream he had of being at Dieppe prior to returning to Canada. I did not volunteer my associations, but this socalled “piece of cake” invasion was a WWII Canadian disaster masterminded by the British. After getting to know Scottie, I now realize he would have welcomed my thoughts and have gone on to further explore the dream.
W.C.M. Scott was born in 1903, in Metz, Ontario, the beloved son of a Presbyterian minister. His mother's inscription in his Alice in Wonderland book read, “For into my heart you have stolen, as sunbeams to shadows creep.” This is reminiscent of Freud's statement about a mother's love and a son's later actual success. He was co-editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and honorary editor of the Journal of Melanie Klein and Object Relations. His leadership on the Canadian scene was akin to that of Ernest Jones in Great Britain. Scott was bright and actively involved in psychoanalytic thought, writing, and discussion and continued writing letters to many of us until the time of his death in Montreal in 1997.
This book was edited by Montreal analyst Michel Grignon and includes only articles by Scott's Montreal friends, students, and analysands—with the exception of Henri Rey's chapter. Some of these fourteen authors' papers were written