The Freud-Adler Controversy

Book excerpt: This text charts the early history of the modern psychoanalytic movementhrough the personalities that influenced its development. Many of the earlyheories were discussed at the Wednesday meetings of the Viennasychoanalytic Society, and extracts from the minutes of these meetings arencluded here.;Of all the splits that characterized these early years, noneas more heated than the acrimonious split between Freud and Adler. From aelationship of mutual respect and collaboration the two men had an infamousine-year disagreement in the development of their schools of psychotherapy.