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EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION: Scott's estate is managed by his sons Robert H. Scott and Richard J. Scott, who donated Dr. Scott's papers to Library and Archives Canada, where they are maintained by the Manuscript Division. Shortly before his death, Scott had assembled a draft of what he called the “first chapter” of his autobiography; his sons published a very small number of issues privately in 2001. Some of this information about the first part of his life can be found in the interviews published in this special issue of the journal, and in interviews with Virginia Hunter (1995), and Laurie Raymond and Susan Rosbrow-Reich (1997).
I was given permission by the estate to access Scott's notes for the rest of his autobiography, and provided with generous financial support from the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society to cover the costs. This is what I found.
Ever since my university days, when I had chosen to study medicine rather than becoming a student of the humanities, as my father would have liked, I had been somewhat estranged from my family. The relationship I had with my father did not improve when I chose to marry a German woman. My mother did not share in my father's attitude. On the contrary, she was quite curious about my German wife and wrote frequently in order to keep in touch with the many changes in our lives. After a great deal of planning and many letters back and forth across the Atlantic, it was finally decided