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The original idea for this video-recording came from Pierre Drapeau, Henri Rey, Paul Lefebvre, and Jean Baptiste Boulanger; the first three were the interviewers along with Monique Meloche. What started as a two- or three-hour project developed into twelve hours of taped interviews over three and a half years. As Monique Meloche says, “We had greatly underestimated Dr. Scott's generosity and his endless capacity to make links between memories, metapsychology, and clinical material. He never failed to tire his interviewers out, while he was always ready to—and sometimes did—do two-hour sessions without a break” (1998, p. 159).
The recordings were made possible with the financial backing of the S.P.M. and Le Département de l'Enseignement de l'Hôpital Sainte-Justine, as well as support from Jean-Baptiste Boulanger, Bruno Cormier, Charles Levin, Sidney Perzow, and Evelyn Scott, and the secretarial staff, Mesdames Gatien, Lalonde, and Légaré. The main contribution came from the cameramen, Roland Duchesne, and Jacques Viau.
Scott's childhood and his frustration with his father's answers to questions about religion and craziness; his discovery of psychology and early medical education; the influence of Adolf Meyer and Paul Schilder; and his first attempt at analysis with a schizophrenic woman at Harvard.
PAUL LEFEBVRE: Thank you for discussing your long career with us. You were born in a small Ontario town in the early years of the century. Your father was a pastor. You've told how he often had to visit and care for the sick, just as the doctor in the town had to do in his own work—two
Transcribed by Angela Sheppard. The original has been condensed from approximately 50,000 words to just over 30,000 words to remove repetitions and make the interviews more accessible.
different approaches in caring for the ill. What are your impressions about that?
CLIFFORD SCOTT: Wonderment. I grew up in this little town and did not go to school until I was