ABSTRACT
In 1902, Freud invited Adler and a number of other Viennese physicians to meet for discussions of his theories. This was the beginning of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. Adler never considered himself a Freudian, nor was he ever psychoanalyzed. However, he had defended Freud's Interpretation of Dreams (1900), which had been lambasted by the press. In those days, Adler became a co-editor, along with Freud and William Stekel of Freud's journal, Zeutralblatt fur Psychoanalyse. Many biographers (Jones, 1955; Orgler 1963; Ansbacher & Ansbacher, 1956) agree that Freud and Adler were never close friends. As time passed, their theoretical differences became acute. In 1911, Adler was asked to present three papers before the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society in which he pointed out the differences between Freud's and his own theories. The differences were so great that Adler resigned from the society and his editorship of the journal, thus ending any further contacts between himself and Freud. Adler and a few of his followers in the Society started the Society for Free Psychoanalysis, which later became the Society for Individual Psychology.
