ABSTRACT
Dr. Alfred Adler was born in a suburb of Vienna in1870; he died in 1937 at the age of 67 in Aberdeen, Scotland, while on a lecture tour. He graduated from the medical school of the University of Vienna and established his medical practice in 1895. In 1902, Adler served for a brief period as a general physician in the Hungarian army. Later that same year, Sigmund Freud invited him to attend the early Wednesday evening Vienna Psychoanalytic Society meetings. It appears that these were “invitation only,” closed meetings attended by those whom Freud selected. Adler was a central part of this group for approximately nine years, even serving as president in 1910. Adler came to disagree with Freud during these later years, particularly over the role that sexual and social factors played in individual development and motivation (Milliren, Newbauer, & Evans, 2003).
