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I certainly have a fair amount of information about Scotty and I will give it to you now.
I think that he got his medical degree at Johns Hopkins and then came to London. I believe he had some analysis with Melanie Klein, in fact I think that he was her first patient? Whatever it was, Scott definitely thought of himself as a Kleinian.
Ewan Cameron, the head psychiatrist at the Allan Memorial Hospital in Montreal, got in touch with Clifford Scott and asked if he would go to Montreal to get psychoanalysis started up in Canada. This Scott agreed to do and quickly fell into the role of analyzing, supervising, and in general instructing many of the staff of the Montreal Children's Hospital, including me. I then became one of his analytic patients and after some time decided that I too wanted to become a psychoanalyst. Non-medical individuals could not become psychoanalysts in Canada at that time—the medicals had it sewn up—but that was not the case in London with nonmedical women such as Melanie Klein and Anna Freud working here at full tilt. Clifford Scott encouraged me to come to London to train as a psychoanalyst, influenced by Melanie Klein, and to then return to Canada to teach psychoanalysis. He advised me to try various Kleinians as my analyst, such as Hanna Segal or Betty Joseph, but none of them had vacancies. It is thanks to him that I am here now. Since my French was not very good and Montreal was a French-Canadian city, I would have probably returned to Toronto if I had not stayed in London. After training as a